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...Hands. During World War II, Brown served notably as 1) a member of Fleet Admiral Ernest King's staff in Washington, 2) commander of the escort carrier Kalinin Bay in the Pacific, 3) chief of staff of Carrier Division One from Leyte Gulf to the shores of Japan. Eleven more years of staff work and carrier command in the Pentagon and Mediterranean won him his third star and command of the Sixth Fleet, which he immediately began running his own way. "I cannot tell you how exciting it is," he wrote to his close friends, "to hold...
...Russia was a library, not a prison-though the difference was hard to tell. It was the Lenin Library in Moscow. Russian propaganda calls it "the world's greatest library," and speaks proudly of its twelve million volumes. It stands, massive and modern, at the start of Kalinin Street near the Kremlin, with a gigantic block-long bookstack...
...Petrovsky has been missing since 1938. Chervyakov, Aitakov, Musabekov, Khodzhayev and Rakhimbayev were all purged. Kalinin died last summer (of natural causes...
...zhdat, to wait or to expect, it is a good name for a man who was to ride quietly up the party escalator until he could expect (or at least hope for) succession to the biggest political job on earth. His father was a school inspector in Tver (now Kalinin), about 100 miles northwest of Moscow. Zhdanov had a better education (including German and French) than any present member of the Politburo. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1915 when he was 19, and had an undistinguished career as an organizer until, after years of fidelity to Stalin, his great chance...
...time of Molotov's youth created futility out of internal dissension. Among the Old Bolsheviks themselves unity has been maintained by terror. Of the Politburo as it existed in 1925 when Molotov was raised to it, three men-Stalin, Voroshilov and Molotov-are left. Tomsky committed suicide; Kalinin and Dzerzhinsky died; Trotsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Rykov, Rudzutak, Petrovsky, Uglanov and Kamenev were all efficiently purged. In 1930 when he became Premier he told the secret of his survival in his inaugural speech...