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...your cover of Oct. 6: Instead of Malenkov sitting in Stalin's lap, wouldn't it be more effective to have Uncle Joe with Truman on one knee and Acheson on the other? Acheson, of course, to be on Stalin's left knee, next to his heart...
...cold war, not cold peace, was still the order of the day in the Kremlin, where the Communist Party Congress met for the first time in 13 years. Molotov cried that U.S. "ruling circles" are "conducting preparations for unleashing a new world war"; Malenkov accused the U.S. of saddling "their junior partners, enslaving them, flogging them mercilessly," also "inspiring plots against their English and French allies" in their colonies. "The conflicts at present dividing the imperialist camp can lead...
...Russia, insisted Malenkov in a five-hour speech, it is friendly as can be: "Peaceful co-existence of capitalism and Communism is perfectly feasible. Export of revolution is rubbish." Any capitalist state that wanted it, cooed Malenkov, could have "lasting peace" with Russia...
...home front, Malenkov reported glowing economic progress. Russian industrial output had increased 13 times since 1929 and doubled since 1940. Statistics in percentages is an old Soviet trick, but this time Malenkov gave specific production figures too, which-insofar as they are to be trusted-show that Russia is turning out only 40% of current U.S. production, but nevertheless making considerable strides. His 1952 estimates: iron, 25 million tons; steel, 35 million tons; coal, 300 million tons...
Then, having praised his party's performance, Malenkov proceeded to berate it. The detailed shortcomings: "Great waste and unproductive expenditure . . . inefficient and excessively long railway transportation . . . road transport still badly organized . . . laxness in raising labor productivity ... an acute housing shortage everywhere . . . defective goods." He warned the delegates that "nepotism had been rife" in the party. Even the writers and artists, a privileged caste, caught it: "Not enough good films, not enough satire...