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...inveterate suspicion with which the Russians regarded foreigners was shown by some remarkable incidents during Molotov's stay in Chequers. On arrival they had asked at once for keys to all the bedrooms . . . Thereafter our guests always kept their doors locked. When the staff at Chequers succeeded in getting in to make the beds, they were disturbed to find pistols under the pillows...
...powerful Presidium (25 full members, eleven alternates) to replace the defunct Politburo (TIME, Sept. 1). No. 1 on the list of Presidium members: Joseph Stalin. Chief aides: Molotov, Malenkov, Beria. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, His Master's Voice at the U.N. (see above), got a pat on the back: he was included as an alternate member of the Presidium (his Menshevik past has previously kept him from higher honors). Politburocrat Andrei Andreev, onetime boss of collective farms, was not on the list...
Stalin himself made his first appearance on the cover on June 9, 1930, has reappeared eight times since (most recently as the background for Malenkov). No other Communist has approached that record. Runners-up are Molotov and Trotsky, with three each. But Malenkov, who has now been on TIME'S cover twice, may better their records in due course...
...cold war, not cold peace, was still the order of the day in the Kremlin, where the Communist Party Congress met for the first time in 13 years. Molotov cried that U.S. "ruling circles" are "conducting preparations for unleashing a new world war"; Malenkov accused the U.S. of saddling "their junior partners, enslaving them, flogging them mercilessly," also "inspiring plots against their English and French allies" in their colonies. "The conflicts at present dividing the imperialist camp can lead...
Stolen Thunder. Stalin's message was published on the eve of the first Communist Party Congress in 13 years, and stole the thunder from Malenkov and Molotov, who had been chosen to make the principal speeches. For four hours, Rising Favorite Georgy Malenkov (TIME, Oct. 6) harangued his audience with the old familiar routine, i.e., the "bosses" of the U.S. are bent on "world domination and war," and therefore the Soviet Union must "strengthen its defense capabilities." He and Molotov (same theme) spoke for the crowds to hear. But Stalin, whose words Communist strategists the world over will most...