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...basis of such barely visible clues, weary Kremlinologists stake their reputations. One of the best of the bunch, Britain's Edward Crankshaw, inspired one theory of Nikita's future with a frontpage story in London's Observer declaring that aging Khrushchev might announce his retirement "within two years" at the coming May 28 meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Who told him? "Well-informed Soviet sources," of course...
...should be believed. From Jeremy Wolfenden, London Daily Telegraph correspondent in Moscow, came word that "Russian sources decisively reject the idea that Mr. Khrushchev will retire either from the premiership or the secretaryship of the party." Merle Fainsod, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, said Crankshaw "is spinning things out rather thin." William Griffith, research associate on Communist affairs at M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies, declared, "I would not say that the weight of evidence is on Crankshaw's side." But just in case it was, Griffith added: "You can argue either way; either Khrushchev...
...having a demoralizing effect on the Communist world. But in one respect, it is to Khrushchev's advantage: it reinforces the idea in the West that he is not a bad fellow compared to the Stalinists, and it even leads such Soviet experts as Britain's Edward Crankshaw to suggest that Mr. K.'s Russia is slowly moving toward "a species of democracy...
...compared to a subhuman being. Such is the case of Wolfgang Leonlard, an ex-Stalinist official of East Germany, whose dismal career has apparently foundered on the dismal hope that "national Communism" would be better than the all-too-togetherness of a universal Moscow state. Soviet Expert Edward Crankshaw met Leonhard in Yugoslavia, where, says Crankshaw in his foreword, "he was rather like one of those legendary young men who . . . emerge from the jungle emitting strange sounds, having spent their childhood or adolescence in the exclusive company of wolves-or bears...
...Crankshaw provides vivid portraits of the top Gestapo men, in particular Himmler, whose mild, chinless exterior concealed a capable administrator, a ruthless intriguer, and the greatest mass murderer of all time. Towards the end of World War II, ambitious for absolute power, Himmler made the mistake of reaching out for just one more life. But that life was Hitler's; Himmler took potassium cyanide. Gestapo is a bold and worthwhile attempt to understand something of these monstrous men and of their strange decade, but in fact it explains very little. The mass of evidence in the Nürnbergr...