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Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, 60, Deputy Premier, holds no specific ministry, will probably continue as the Kremlins roving economic troubleshooter. Last remaining jew in the hierarchy. Born to a poor family in the Ukraine graduated from elementary school became a shoemaker at 14, a Bolshevik at 18 (in 1911). An effective job of handling touchy minorities in Turkestan in 1920 won Stalin's attention and a summons to Moscow. Hard-working practical Kaganovich was sent off in 1925, at the age of 32 to boss the Ukraine, Russia's richest area; there, directed the building of Dneprostroi, first great...
...from the tales of refugees and monitored Red radio broadcasts, Western agents concluded that a Russian purge tribunal has gone to Hungary to root out "suspected Zionists" from the strongly Jewish (90% in the top echelons) government of Communist Premier Matyas Rakosi, who is himself a Jew...
...where one of the men lived. That's Sonny Campbell. [So] one morning we stuck him up, and we wanted to know where the furs were. [But] the man didn't know." Campbell, it turned out, had already tipped off the Jersey waterfront mob under "Charlie the Jew" Yanowski (since ice-picked to death), and Charlie had highjacked the furs from the original highjackers. Despite their prior claim, Smith & Co. formally agreed to let the Jersey mob keep the boodle. Meanwhile, Campbell's pals, unaware that he had double-crossed them, set out to avenge his temporary...
...TRIAL, the official organ of the East German Communist Party, Neues Deutschland, indicated that some other victims are being spotlighted. Among them: Kurt Müller, a West German Communist accused of "contacting foreign Trotzkyites like Ruth Fischer" (Eisler's estranged sister), and Paul Merker, who is a Jew, charged with "harboring the Zionist viewpoint" and acting like "another Slansky." The accusations suggested that Jewish Communists with Western, and particularly U.S., "connections" would be used as scapegoats for East Germany's economic woes. The role seemed tailor-made for Gerhart Eisler...
...Carolina-born newspaperman and longtime (1923-41) United Press correspondent in Vienna, who turned traitor during World War II, was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948 (TIME, July 12, 1948) for broadcasting Nazi propaganda from Berlin (sample: "I hope that Europe will demand the life of one Jew for every European who dies in the present war"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield...