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Unlisted so far in this geographical Debrett's has been the name of Andrei Zhdanov. Cominform chief, who died last August. But last week that omission stood corrected. From the Kremlin had come orders that the following were to be renamed in Zhdanov's honor: 1) the town of Mariupol, where he was born; 2) the Tagansky District of Moscow; 3) the Primorsky District of Leningrad; 4) Rozhdestvenka Street in Moscow; 5) the Izhora Shipbuilding Works; 6) Moscow's Exemplar Printing Works; 7) the Krasnoye-Sormovo Metal Works; 8) the Vladimir Tractor Works; 9) the Leningrad State...
Communist Reporter Gregory Staktopoulos and his mother, Anna, were in jail. Communist Leader Adam Mouzenides, named as the trigger man, and one Evangelos Vasvanas were at large. According to the official version, the killing was plotted by the Cominform, executed by the Greek Communist Party in the hope that it could be blamed on rightists and used to discredit the Greek government in the eyes of the world...
...Balkans) is ready to submit a report giving solid evidence that Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia had aided the Markos guerrillas against the Athens government. It may throw some interesting light on whether aid from Yugoslavia has dwindled or stopped since Tito's country got kicked out of the Cominform...
...Cominform, founded last year in Poland, is the Communist instrument to bind the satellites to Russia. Ana, through her unswerving loyalty to Stalin, has risen in the Cominform. Now, Andrei Zhdanov, once its guiding spirit, is dead. Tito, once its most powerful member, is in disgrace. (The seat of the Cominform, has been formally transferred from Belgrade to Bucharest.) Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, co-chairman with Zhdanov of the first Cominform meeting, has just been demoted after a row with Moscow (see below). Albania has been cut off by Tito's defection. Communist power in Czechoslovakia...
Gomulka held out for three days against the Central Committee. Then, unlike Tito, who had defied Moscow and been quarantined by the Cominform for it, he confessed his sins. To a congress of 800 party workers in Warsaw Gomulka said: "Comrades, tell all the party members I committed a number of errors. However, I've realized all these errors under the influence of sharp criticism by my comrades . . . Our party is a party of struggle, and one cannot be victorious in a struggle if the leader is hesitant. Such hesitation appeared in my case...