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...Vacuum. Three days after Gottwald's death, no successor had been announced. Moscow, well aware of the dangerous power vacuum, sent a delegation to Prague headed by Marshal Bulganin-ostensibly to attend Gottwald's funeral. Outside the Iron Curtain, there was speculation that Czechoslovakia might abolish the office of President; even so, somebody had to be the country's boss. The chief aspirants were Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky, 69, who is old for the job and perhaps not aggressive enough; Defense Minister Alexei Cepicka, 43, who rose to favor by marrying Gottwald's daughter...
...party leaders have also taken the most important ministries (second row of chart). Vishinsky has been bumped down by Molotov, who again becomes Foreign Minister. Marshal Vasilevsky was similarly demoted to make room for Marshal Bulganin. Other familiar names among the first deputy ministers (third row): Jacob Malik, former U.N. delegate, and Marshal Zhukov, conqueror of Berlin...
Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, 58, Deputy Premier Minister of War, will boss the army, navy and airforce. Son of a factory clerk, meagerly educated, joined the Bolsheviks in 1917, fought in Siberia. Afterwards turned bureaucrat-businessman. 1922, chief od Russia's largest electrical equipment plant; 1931, Mayor of Moscow; 1938, chairman of GOSBANK (Russia's Federal Reserve). In 1941, doffed his business suit, became political commissar of the armies defending Moscow, full general 1944, marshal 1947, but is primarily politician bossing army professionals. Politburo member, 1948. Small, neatly dressed, goateed, mild in manner and tone. Married a girl...
...Malenkov shares power with four Deputy Premiers, all old hands (see box): Bena (Interior), Molotov (Foreign Affairs), Bulganin (War), and Kaganovich (Economics). Together, these five men make up the Presidium of the Council of Ministers, a kind of inner cabinet. On the charts (see NEWS IN PICTURES) they form a pentarchy, but Malenkov is clearly head...
Several changes make for a more streamlined emergency command setup-or, as Moscow's official communiqué put it, "more operative leadership." The changes: ¶A few years ago, Beria, Molotov and Bulganin stopped actually running their ministries, remained on the all-powerful Politburo, free to think and plan; the ministries were taken over by lesser lights, e.g., Andrei Vishinsky replaced Molotov as Foreign Minister. Now the top boys are back in charge of their departments and the second-stringers are kicked downstairs, e.g., Vishinsky is now only deputy minister and chief representative at U.N. ¶At last October...