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...twelve months, Nikita Khrushchev, peasant's son and cornfield commissar scorned by the party's veteran intellectuals, disposed of all his serious rivals?at least for the time. For good measure, he turned on the Soviet Union's No. 1 soldier and war hero, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, dismissed him with an airy promise of "some job for which he is experienced and qualified." He reorganized Soviet industry, laid down the law to Soviet intellectuals, stemmed the tide of desertions from the Western Communist parties, soothed the incipient rebellion in the satellites, and got from China's Mao Tse-tung...
...World War II, Malinovsky commanded the armies that drove the Germans from his native Ukraine, where his friend Nikita Khrushchev was political commissar. In 1945 he was transferred to the Far Eastern front, directed Soviet forces in the brief war against the Japanese in Manchuria, told Chinese Communists that if the U.S. "put out a hand" to interfere with them, "we will cut it off." Staying on as Soviet commander in the Far East, he presumably masterminded the Korean invasion of 1950, moved back to Moscow last year. For Khrushchev he will be a faithful servant rather than rival...
...stomach ailment; in the Orlando, Fla. hospital where he last week married his second wife, Anna Enwright, widow of a Florida judge. Duranty became well acquainted with the Kremlin oligarchy (said he: "Moscow stands for progress"; said Stalin: "You have done a good job of reporting"), accompanied Foreign Affairs Commissar Maxim Litvinoff when he came to Washington in 1933 searching for U.S. recognition, later covered the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) from the Loyalist side...
...year retail trade (200 million customers) and a $6.2 billion-a-year overseas business, but in the process achieved an understanding of the wider world of trade and global politics that is unmatched among Politburocrats. To two generations of Western diplomats and trade negotiators, this brisk and comprehending commissar has seemed "the best of a bad lot." To the rough, tough muzhik Khrushchev, he is the useful Mr. Worldly-Wise of the Russian proverb who "knows where the shrimps stay in winter." Today, as in Stalin's time, Mikoyan serves indispensably-and survives. Says a Briton who has watched...
...these speeches, rounded up in one long article that filled half of Pravda and was broadcast lengthily over Radio Moscow, the corn-belt commissar cockily sounded off on art, literature, ideology -and Georgy Malenkov. Khrushchev charged that the man he ordered off to central Asian exile last July had "fallen under the complete influence of the sworn enemy of the people and the party, the provocateur Beria," and become the late secret-police boss's "shadow and tool." Said Khrushchev: "Holding a high position in the party and state, Comrade Malenkov not only did not hold Stalin back...