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...fourth in a high-pitched controversy about Yugoslavia's territorial demands on Austrian Carinthia, which Russia first backed, then repudiated (TIME, June 27). Europe's rumor factories at once produced pertinent whispers: a Soviet airlift across Yugoslavia was reinforcing isolated little Albania"; Marshal Ivan S. Konev was in Bulgaria warming up a Cominform army...
...last week, when he rose from the piano after playing some of his chamber works with a touch that was firm and decisive, he got the biggest ovation given one of his countrymen in Prague since Marshal Konev liberated the city two years ago. The tribute was not so much for the compositions he had played (they were slight pieces) but for his past contribution to music. For half an hour the crowd clapped, cheered and shouted, bringing him back again & again to take nervous, bobbing little bows. Once he stumbled over the dais and almost fell headlong...
...Left to right: Marshal S. M. Budenny; Colonel General K. A. Vershinin; Marshal I. S. Konev; Marshal A. M. Vasilevsky, Chief of Staff; Marshal L. A. Govorov; N. A. Bulganin, Deputy War Minister; Zhdanov; N. A. Voznesensky, Chairman of State Planning Commission; N. M. Shvernik, Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet; G. M. Popov, Party Secretary; A. N. Kosygin, Vice Chairman of Council of Ministers; M. F. Shkiryatov, Member of Presidium of Supreme Soviet; N. S. Patolichev, Party Secretary; A. V. Khrulev, Vice Minister of Armed Forces; A. A. Kuznetsov, Party Secretary...
...Russians were deeply disappointed in their Austrian comrades. When Clark and Konev recently discussed Austrian politicians, the name of Austria's lanky, long-haired Communist Boss Ernst Fischer came up. Said Clark, half jesting, half in earnest: "I don't like him because he is a Communist." Said Konev: "That's fine, I don't like him either because he is an Austrian Communist...
...they ordered opera performances to be resumed last May. It was symbolic of Austrian-Russian relations that the Viennese claimed a singer in The Marriage of Figaro had been raped three times by Russian soldiers the day before the opening. To Vienna the chief villain is General Alexei Zheltov, Konev's second in command, who is believed by most observers to be more powerful than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past, talks suavely, narrows his eyes when he gets excited, was once a wrestler (220 Ibs.) and is usually described...