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...Shao-chi, about 50, vice chairman of the Politburo, secretary of the Central Committee. Little known but very powerful. Close to Mao, and said by some to be the heir apparent. Theorist and dogmatist of the party and, like Stalin and Malenkov in Russia, the one who controls its elaborate apparatus. He was practically unknown outside the party a decade ago; his first book, How to Be a Good Communist, introduced him in 1939 as a prime dialectician. Married: twice (first wife killed by Kuomintang troops in 1934). Children: a son and daughter of whom it has been said that...
While Molotov was busy mixing peacetime Molotov cocktails (honey and ground glass) at Geneva, two other leading Communists were breathing martial fire in Moscow before the Supreme Soviet. Said Premier Malenkov, to one parliamentary chamber: "If the aggressive circles banking on the atomic weapon should resort to madness, and should want to test the strength and might of the Soviet Union, there can be no doubt that the aggressor would be crushed . . ." Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev told the other chamber: "It will inevitably end in the collapse of the whole capitalist system...
Bellicose and synchronized words like these had been uttered before. What stimulated the interest of Western observers was that i) this was the first time Khrushchev had spoken out on Soviet foreign policy; and 2) Malenkov and Khrushchev seemed to be on almost equal terms. More than ever, it seemed likely that the next explosive clash in the Kremlin would be between these two giants...
...Russians have launched one of their periodic offensives of cultural chumminess with the West. After its invitation visit to Moscow and Leningrad, the Comedie Franchise (France's great national theater) returned to Paris last week with delighted reports of how Georgy Malenkov, Scourge of the Bourgeoisie, had attended a performance of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme-and had afterward treated some of the cast to candy and champagne. The U.S.S.R.'s famed Violinist David Oistrakh and Pianist Tatiana Nikolaieva recently concertized in Argentina, a Russian concert group is touring Canada, and the Soviet Ballet is preparing...
Russia's No. 3 Communist, the party's Central Committee Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev, turned 60 and got enough tokens of Premier Georgy Malenkov's favor to suggest that he was riding high above any threat of purge: the Order of Lenin, the Hammer & Sickle Gold Medal, the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. The identical honors were once dealt out to Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, who made a one-way trip to a Moscow cellar last December...