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...paint a picture of Bulganin at the barricades. He was never at the barricades but he-and Moscow's embattled citizenry-did the necessary job. As a reward, Bulganin got a general's rank in the Red army and rapid advancement to the post of political commissar. While Khrushchev, in the days of German retreat from Russia, was liquidating the rebellious peasants who had sided with the Germans in the Ukraine, Bulganin was doing the same job in Belorussia...
...president of the American Newspaper Guild, now an outdoor salesman, invoked the Fifth Amendment's protection. Monroe Stern, onetime Hearst writer and president of the New York Guild local, who became pressagent for the Yugoslav embassy, told the committee he never was a party member. Jack Ryan, a commissar of the New York Guild local until 1947, said he was now a self-employed "horticultural researcher"; he, like others, invoked the Fifth Amendment...
Three of the chairs will be the same, but the occupants will all be new. In Stalin's place will sit Commissar Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Union's Premier, but not undisputed boss as Stalin was. Anthony Eden, alumnus of Yalta, expects to sit for leonine Winston Churchill. For the U.S., Eisenhower will sit in the place filled by Franklin Roosevelt. The new chair will belong to France, represented at none of World War IPs summit conclaves. Occupying it will be owlish, cautious Premier Edgar Faure...
...take a rest. Whatever the truth of these rumors, the fact was that Zhukov had grown too big for Stalin's comfort, i.e., too big to be quietly liquidated, and had been sent to the Odessa military district, where he was living quietly-under the watchful eye of Commissar Serov...
...came the war in Korea. Like magic, Zhukov turned up beside Molotov at a gathering in Warsaw, and again on the 1952 Moscow party Congress. But his real return to favor dates from Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, and the arrest four months later of arch-Commissar Beria. The same plenary meeting of the Central Committee which denounced Beria elevated Zhukov to full membership on the Central Committee of the Communist Party...