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...Malenkov's parental and class origins hardly anything is known. He was born on Jan. 8, 1902 in Orenburg, since renamed Chkalov in honor of the famed Soviet flyer who in 1937 hopped over the North Pole to the U.S.* His father was presumably a Cossack subaltern. Orenburg, on the southern flank of the Urals, where Europe meets Asia, was in those days a terminal for camel caravans from Turkestan. It also had the reputation of being a restless, independent place. The Cossacks and peasants of the Orenburg region had mounted one of the most troublesome popular uprisings...
Georgy Malenkov, son of an Orenburg Cossack. He became Stalin's personal secretary after a chance meeting with the boss in 1925. Now a Politburo member, he is one of the four most powerful men in the U.S.S.R...
When Eisler last spoke here, late in April 1948, the expected outburst of trouble fizzled briefly and then settled into spasmodic heckling from the audience. Two students in cossack costumes provided the only incident of the evening. But they barely got to greet Eisler before they were ejected from the meeting...
Finally, what if the Government proves its case and the defendants are convicted? Why give them a boost towards undeserved martyrdom? The Communists are all too ready to shout "Cossack" as it is. There is no need for the New York Police Department to be their straight...
...Accompanied Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret to Constitution Hall for a concert by the Don Cossack Chorus (whose members had been carefully investigated by the Secret Service and duly pronounced White Russians). The President slipped out before the intermission, went to the Statler Hotel to address a savings bond rally. As he left for the concert again he said: "I've got to escort them [Mrs. Truman and Margaret] home. What I mean is, I have to escort them to the White House. There's a decided distinction and a difference...