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...good a job has Jim Thompson done for the Thailand silk industry that he has lured in many Thais. More silk shops have been opened in Bangkok recently than any other business, including one reported to be backed by the wife of Thailand's strongman, Marshal Sarit Thanarat...
...that the Central Committee had held a decisive meeting, and the dutiful Deputies sensed that they were to be called on to ratify changes in what the comrades are pleased to call the vanguard of the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat. Moscow's talk centered around the premiership. Marshal Bulganin. the goateed. pleasantly plump palace commissar who had held the job for the last three years, had hesitated too long about supporting Khrushchev in last June's party leadership struggle and had received far fewer nominations than other Politburocrats for last month's Supreme Soviet elections...
When the hall quieted. Voroshilov launched into a eulogy more lavish than any heard since Stalin's death. The marshal praised Khrushchev as defender of "Leninist ideas," rectifier of Stalin's "mistakes." "untiring champion of peace," architect of a "majestic housing program." victor over "antiparty plotters" such as Malenkov and Molotov. Because of Khrushchev's "exceptionally fruitful work." he concluded, "it has been decided that Nikita Sergeevich should [also] remain in his post as First Secretary" of the Communist Party...
...school of political power, Khrushchev brought a new technique to Communist maneuver. Not even Stalin could match his deft juggling of friend and foe in shifting combinations and permutations. Moving into the key post of party secretary after Stalin's death, he teamed with Malenkov and Marshal Zhukov in 1953 to liquidate Secret Police Boss Beria. But that was the last time he had recourse to Stalin's murderous methods of eliminating rivals. When he joined with Molotov and Kaganovich to force Malenkov out of the premiership in 1955, the ousted Malenkov was merely demoted to the harmless...
Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito has made much of the things that differentiate his Communism from other Communism. In Soviet Russia 1,378 candidates stood for 1,378 seats in last month's Supreme Soviet elections. Not for Tito such a travesty of democracy. Last week the Yugoslav dictator held his own version of parliamentary elections. For 301 seats, Yugoslav voters had a choice of 307 candidates...