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...cold-eyed Georgy Malenkov had grown strong enough to electrify a party conference with rousing attacks on Communist bureaucrats, "windbags" and "ignoramuses." Soon after, several commissars were demoted and Polina Zhemchuzhina, wife of Vyacheslav Molotov, was booted out of her job as Commissar of the Fish Industry. Malenkov was honored with a junior membership in the Politburo, later became boss of the party apparatus...
...Kremlin, he alone still affects the plain military tunic and cap Stalin made famous. He has been married twice, first to one of Molotov's secretaries, now to a Moscow actress. He has, like Koestler's Gletkin, no cord to the outside world: he has never set foot on non-Communist soil, never been known to speak to Western newspapermen or Western diplomats. In the few speeches comrade Malenkov has made for public consumption, perhaps the most memorable line is: "Can there be any doubt that a Third World War will become the grave for world capitalism...
...Three. Despite last week's demonstration, not all Western experts agree that Georgy Malenkov is clearly No. 2, for there is still Old Bolshevik Molotov, who has the seniority and prestige that goes with having helped Lenin hatch Communism. Molotov is still in high favor 35 years later. The experts prefer to put it negatively: it is no longer clear that Molotov outranks Malenkov. And not far behind is Lavrenty Beria, the mysterious, pince-nezed master of the midnight arrest and lord of the slave camps, whose Gletkin-like climb has paralleled Malenkov's. But there have been...
...party settled comfortably in the Queen's most luxurious suites on M deck. For the P.M., in Cabin No. 80 (once occupied by Molotov), were a special seven-foot bed, 24 extra-size ashtrays to catch cigar ashes, a supply of brandy, and a personal radiophone for "scrambler" calls from shore. The departure was held up for 24 hours while a crew repaired damage suffered on the Queen's easterly crossing-"the worst crossing," said her skipper, "that I have made in 37 years...
After reviewing the Polish army, Molotov made a long speech in which he 1) referred only briefly to Korea, with emphasis on Russia's peace-loving efforts to bring about a truce; 2) attacked the West as usual for warmongering and plotting aggression against Russia. Most ominous note: a sharp attack on Tito's Yugoslav regime. Cried Molotov: "Realizing that the Yugoslav people hate this hired gang of criminals who stole its way to power, the Tito regime holds itself in power by bloody terror. This cannot continue long. The peoples of Yugoslavia will find...