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Five months after his arrest startled the world, the Kremlin announced abruptly last week that Lavrenty P. Beria. ex-boss of the Soviet secret police, chief of Russia's atomic program and longtime comrade-in-arms of Malenkov. had broken down and admitted to the "most serious crimes against the state." Beria. added Radio Moscow, will face trial "at a special sitting of the Soviet supreme court...
...very difficult to forecast your possible selection this year, because no outstanding figure emerged during the year. Eisenhower, Brownell, McCarthy, Adenauer, Pope Pius XII (he is always in the running because the Roman Catholic Church does most to counteract Communism), Malenkov, Truman, and the ghost of Harry Dexter White are all possible selections . . . Somehow, I can already see Joe McCarthy's face staring at me from your first issue...
President Eisenhower replied. He was not sure at all that the Kremlin under Georgy Malenkov wore a new look: perhaps it was just the same old dress with some new trimmings. Under the circumstances, it would be wise to cross the street and have a longer look at the girl before making a date. The Communists have not changed fundamentally...
...Eavesdropping. Thus acquainted with U.S. firmness, Sir Winston did not even bother to bring up his private dream of flying off to Moscow alone for a face-to-face meeting with Premier Malenkov-a meeting "at the summit." Instead, the discussion shifted to a specific subject: Russia's sudden assent to a Big Four Foreign Ministers' meeting on Germany and Austria. The British hoped for a quick Western acceptance and a quick note to Moscow, so the outside world would not get the notion that this was the only reason for the Bermuda get-together. Early January...
...existentialism; under égalité (equality), it notes that the "preamble of the [French] Constitution of 1946 completes this principle . . ." There are brief biographies of Lillian Gish (revived with Duel in the Sun") and Charles Chaplin, "the most authentic genius of the cinema." Picasso has swelled to 77 lines; Malenkov and Beria have arrived; Korea has grown from two-thirds of a column to two-thirds of a page. Eisenhower, Truman and Churchill are all hommes d'état, but General de Gaulle has been demoted to a mere homme politique...