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...hours later came the communiqu...
...government) are all members of the ruling echelon of the Communist Party, the Presidium of the Central Committee. Malenkov, the new Chairman of the Council of Ministers (i.e., Premier), is listed first in the party hierarchy, with the other members appearing in the order given in the official communiqu...
Heads to Fall? "It has been established that all these doctor-assassins, these fiends in human shape . . . were hired for eign intelligence agents," said the communiqué. The plotters deliberately cut short the life of Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov, the Kremlin's astute politi cal organizer of the Red army in World War II and one of the youngest (43) members of the Politburo when he died in 1945. They also "took advantage of the illness" of Strongman Andrei Zhdanov, creator of the postwar Cominform and the rumored heir to Stalin, who died in mysterious circumstances...
...went on home to dress for dinner. He was soon back again. There were no immediate communiqués on what the two old friends said to each other...
Last week the party moved to punish the culprits. A communiqué itemized their sins; they added up to "fractionalism." Marty was fired from the party secretariat, but kept his job in the politburo. Tillon was fired from the politburo, but remained on the central committee. Both were given a month to recant and confess in approved Communist style. Only the fact that Old Heroes Marty and Tillon still have many followers inside the party saved them from immediate disgrace and expulsion. Said the party communiqué: the central committee is determined "to do everything to help comrades in error...