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...occasion for this particular amnesty, the Kremlin explained, is "the increase in well-being and cultural standards of the population." The likely explanation is considerably less hopeful: Malenkov & Co., in need of as much public acquiescence as they can muster while they nail down the power they inherited from Stalin, are unlocking a few cell doors to appease the population, but throwing away none of the keys which make all of Russia's 210 millions their prisoners...
Without waiting for a question, the President began his conference last week by stepping up to the big topic: Does the U.S. think that the shooting down of U.S. planes means anything ominous about relations with Malenkov's Russia? He doesn't see anything different from the attacks of the past, Eisenhower said. As to the changeover in the Kremlin itself, he said, there has been, as you know, an expression of an intention to seek peace. They will never be met less than halfway, the President continued, because the purpose of this Administration will forever...
Moscow crisply announced last week that Premier Georgy Malenkov, "at his own request," had stepped out of one of the three jobs he inherited from Stalin...
...gave up, that of secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, is the one through which Stalin fashioned his real control over Russia, and Malenkov his claims to the succession. Now it will be occupied by a reorganized secretariat of five men, headed by Nikita S. Khrushchev, 58, the tough, slow but steady climber in the hierarchy of Soviet power, who won notoriety by his ruthlessness in putting down discontent in the Ukraine...
Washington guessed that Malenkov would not abandon so important a job voluntarily, and that, therefore, this was proof that he is not yet in full control. London guessed just the opposite: that this was proof that Malenkov is so firmly in control that he could safely relinquish one of his heaviest assignments. Outside the Kremlin, no one really knew...