Word: malenkov
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...next to at dinner. His face is pale, round and expressionless; his cheeks are flabby, his chin is double, but his eyes are hard as carborundum. His stiff black hair looks as if it had been pasted on. He does not attempt to make himself agreeable. Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov is not what anyone could describe as a cuddly personality...
...prominent diplomatic visitor once described meeting him at a Moscow dinner: "My most vivid memory is the sight of Malenkov. It was the most sinister thing in the Soviet Union. I was struck by his repulsive appearance, bulbous, flabby and sallow . . . He was apparently oblivious of what was going on around him at the table. When toasts were made, he would lift his glass automatically, then relapse into sneering silence." Said another diplomat: "I would hate to be at the mercy of that...
...Georgy Malenkov holds millions at his mercy. As a secretary of the Central Committee, a member of the Politburo and of the Orgburo, he controls the party machinery, a vast, complex mechanism that reaches into every corner of Russia and beyond Russia's boundaries into the satellite nations and the party cells in the free nations...
Americans are beginning to recognize his face: a pudgy, petulant face which has begun to appear in official Soviet photographs next to Stalin's aging, feline mask. Malenkov was once even empowered to affix the dread signature of Stalin to certain documents, with a special rubber stamp. And more is rumored: that this short (5 ft. 7 in), fat (250 Ibs.), 50-year-old man will inherit Stalin's power. This week, as the19th Congress of the Russian Communist Party convenes in Moscow, great new honors will come to the wielder of Stalin's rubber stamp...
...have been and will be meetings where the worst of the oratory is matched by will, whose occurence is and will be a pall on the free world's get-togethers. A few thousand delegates from the winters of Democratic Centralism will soon sojourn in Moscow to applaud Comrade Malenkov's paean to production, and their unanimity will please no one this side of Workers' Heaven. And the fact that the snarls at Panmunjom have given way to terse announcements of adjournment, and that these brief ceremonics have shifted from a lcaky tent to a wooden structure, does not make...