Word: malenkov
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...want to see the machinery and the people," said pudgy Georgy Malenkov. "We are trying to combine them both, but the people are more important than the machinery." In a round of visits to Britain's atomic research laboratories and power plants last week, Georgy's fellow delegates made copious notes...
Sometimes his efforts came a cropper. Urged by photographers to pose with an English child in Hampton Court, Malenkov, with hundreds of children to pick from, unhappily seized on six-year-old Thomas Klouda and his brother Peter, aged three, and plunked them on his knees. The boys happened to be the sons of former Czechoslovakian Consul-General Antonin Klouda, who fled Prague after the Communist coup. "Frankly, my first thought," said father Klouda, "was how easy it would be to assassinate...
...Staffordshire Electrical Engineer Gleb Kerensky indignantly turned down an invitation to act as Malenkov's interpreter. His father, it seems, was the same Alexander Kerensky who was deposed as Russian Premier by the Bolsheviks...
...however, Georgy was doing fine. Time and again he had his picture taken grinning from ear to ear amid a sea of female workers. At an official dinner one night, he commandeered one of the entertainers, pretty, blonde Xylophonist Pauline Joy, and invited her to sit beside him. As Malenkov beamed and flashbulbs popped, Pauline in her tights banged out a selection of Russian folk tunes. After a couple of encores, the courtly Malenkov sent a waiter out to buy her "a large box of chocolates...
...dinner in London with a group of 19 British Laborites, some of whom he himself had entertained in Moscow, Georgy Malenkov impressed the brethren with his skill and confidence under a barrage of questions. Laborite R. H. ("Dick") Crossman gave an account of the interview to reporters next day, later dutifully repudiated it in the face of official Russian protests. "He told us," Grossman said, " 'We have effectively prevented a repetition of the dictatorship of Stalin.' Asked in detail how that was done, he did not answer except by saying, 'We have done it.' " Did Malenkov...