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...Blackest Nazis. Behind its imposing, heavily guarded barricade are seven sick and lonely men, the only inmates. But they are seven of the blackest Nazis still alive: Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler's closest confidants; Karl Doenitz, once commander of the German navy; Baron Konstantin von Neurath, former proconsul of Czechoslovakia; Albert Speer, Hitler's production genius; Walter Funk, director of Nazi finances; Baldur von Schirach, leader-hero of Nazi youth; and ex-Admiral Erich Raeder...
...clear evidence that the Kremlin had planned the extirpation of Polish army leadership far in advance (some 11,000 other Polish officers had simply disappeared without trace in Russia). The Kremlin's rule in Poland today is maintained through the Communist party and through Red Army Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, who is Poland's Defense Minister. Russian control is greatly facilitated by the fact that the major part of Poland's officer corps is either dead or in exile...
...force chief, Alexander Novikov, was fired and jailed. Just about that time, Russia turned more attention to heavy bombers, even separated its air force from ground command (it has since been returned to army control). The new air boss was a shining party light, 46-year-old Marshal Konstantin Vershinin, Hero of the Soviet Union, and one of the top World War II commanders. His orders were to get going on jets. Russia's designers had proved that they could build conventional planes; now with German help they proved that they could build first-rate jets...
...force, were headed by Russian Politburocrat Vyacheslav Molotov, who is not in the habit of traveling to minor Red letter day celebrations in satellite countries unless he has good reason. Also present: Marshal Georgi Zhukov, recalled from the limbo to which he had been banished in 1946; Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, boss of Poland's armed forces (a week ago reported assassinated); Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht of East Germany, the top German Communist; Polish President Boleslaw Bierut and enough deputy premiers from Albania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Outer Mongolia, Hungary and Rumania to fill several police vans...
Reported Shot: Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, 54, Soviet war hero, appointed Poland's Defense Minister in 1949. Stockholm rumors said Rokossovsky had been pinked by a Polish officer who later committed suicide. The Voice of America beamed the report to Poland, waited to see if Rokossovsky would deny it by making a public appearance...