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...most powerful, most important Gletkin in the Soviet Union reached his Soth birthday last week. The tallowy face of Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov glowered from the front page of every important newspaper in the land. As a birthday gift he got the Order of Lenin, Communism's highest decoration. The Kremlin's praise was laid on with a trowel...
...point up the shift in the propaganda line, three top Kremlinites who are known more as Communists than as Russians absented themselves from the ceremonies. The absent: Stalin, Malenkov and Beria...
...recent decrees devaluating the ruble and reducing prices were signed by Stalin and Malenkov. Last November, on the 32nd anniversary of the October Revolution, Malenkov was orator of the day-an honor accorded to Zhdanov in 1946, to Molotov in 1947 and 1948. On Stalin's 70th birthday, Malenkov's tribute took precedence over Molotov's. More significant perhaps than such fine points of Soviet place are some signs that Beria is an ally of Malenkov. With party and police backing, Malenkov stands at the pivot of Soviet power-for the moment...
...Communist world, what might Malenkov's succession portend? During last fall's Revolution anniversary, he gave a clue. "What," he said oratorically, "does history teach us? The First World War . . . brought about the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution in our country. The Second World War brought Popular Democratic (i.e., Soviet) regimes in Central and Southeast Europe, the victory of the great Chinese people. Can there be any doubt that a Third World War will become the grave for world capitalism...
...maps with you, but it seems to me Mr. Molotov is bored.' Molotov was standing there, his mouth puckered like a stuffy butler. Stalin looked around with a terrific contempt. 'Oh, him . . .' he said." There is no reason to believe that Stalin's opinion of Malenkov is any higher...