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...purge had spread to the satellite countries. The Czech Communist Party was ousting some 200,000 of its million members. There were rumors that Marshal Tito had begun a housecleaning among his "Old Guard" Partisans. In Paris, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Georgi Kulishev admitted that Bulgaria was purging "enemies, opponents or disloyal collaborators with the present government...
Last week the Moscow censor passed a report that Marshal Georgi Zhukov, head of all Soviet land forces, had been assigned to command the Odessa military district. It was as though Ike Eisenhower had been sent back to San Antonio. The Soviet press did not mention the move, but the world outside erupted with rumors...
...YORK-Generlissimo Stalin has quietly carried out a shake-up in the high command of the Red Army, it became known tonight, in which Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, top Soviet war here, has been relegated to the relatively obscure command of the Odessa Military District...
...Bulgaria, the Fatherland Front's Georgi Dimitroff continued his ruthless campaign against the opposition, checked slightly by the presence of U.S. political representative Maynard Barnes and by the fact that Bulgaria needs U.S. economic aid. For the second time, Moscow urged the Bulgarian Government to throw out Barnes; for the second time, the Government regretfully refused (and Dimitroff was promptly summoned to Moscow). On other issues, Sofia has been more obedient; it has dropped its old territorial claims against Comrade Tito's Yugoslavia (for Mother Russia wants a united satellite family), has instead joined the general Balkan campaign...
...Army's vigilant rocket guns and long-range artillery rolled through Red Square, Stalin stood on the topmost level of Lenin's tomb. Smiling affably, he leaned over to the level below, bright with bemedaled Red Army officers, and invited Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov to come up and stand beside him. Down on the streets, the proletariat clustered around cheap food stands, dance bands and vaudeville shows...