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There could be little doubt who was boss now. The Georgy Malenkov who, without any advance notice, stepped forward to address the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet last week, was plainly the man who was running the show. For an hour and a half in the Great Hall of the Big Kremlin Palace he laid down the law on everything from the price of milk to the prospects of peace. It was his first policy speech as chief of state...
...foreign diplomats and newspaper correspondents, looking down on the assembly from their semicircular loges, fastened most eagerly on one Malenkov statement: "The U.S. has no monopoly in the production of the hydrogen bomb" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But that was not what pudgy Premier Malenkov devoted most of his speech to, nor what his hearers inside Russia seemed to get most satisfaction from (Communist papers the world over played down the H-bomb announcement). Still untried as leader, five months after Stalin's death, Malenkov sought to establish himself as the Consumer's Friend. He fairly crooned over prosperity...
...Soviet Union intends to attack no one," said Georgy Malenkov. "Aggressive intentions are alien to it ... We stood and stand for a peaceful co-existence of two systems. We consider that there is no objective ground for a collision between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. . . . After a long period of increasing tension, a certain discharge in the international atmosphere has become palpable for the first time in the postwar years...
Having said all of this, Malenkov fell back on the familiar Soviet doubletalk about "certain American circles" who are "putting their stakes on war," and called NATO "the main threat to the cause of peace." He talked fondly of Iran, and wished to be "good neighborly" with Turkey; he was anticipating "normalization" of relations with Yugoslavia and Greece; he was anxious to supply bread, coal and business contracts to "the glorious Italian people"; he sympathized with Japanese attempts "to win back the independence of their country" from...
Cheap War. Coming after the sludgy prose of Stalin, Malenkov showed a talent for macabre wit and agile invective. He jeered at the U.S. role in Korea: "The aggressive interventionists . . . looking for a cheap war, a blitzkrieg . . . suffered enormous material and human losses and were forced to renounce their aggressive plans. The sheep went in with all their wool and came out clipped...