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...picture in the paper, because it makes it easier to arrive at the ultimate goal of power." ¶That Malenkov, therefore, was set forward as Premier. Ten days later, "at his own wish." Malenkov gave over the vital party secretaryship, and its control of party cadres, to Old Bolshevik Nikita Khrushchev. In Stalin's day, when men began growing too big, he handled them as Hercules did the giant Antaeus: he lifted them up and kept their feet off the ground, whereupon, having lost touch with their roots, they became weak enough to destroy. Beria, presumably, may be doing...
...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...
...Kremlin has only deepened. Who really administers the country now, the 36-man Presidium or the loman Secretariat (kitchen cabinet)? On the theory that it is the smaller, tighter Secretariat, Western intelligence agents and analysts last week were keeping an eye on a newly powerful figure in it, Nikita Khrushchev...
...sorry to see in your Oct. 6 "News in Pictures" a photo with the caption "Merry Christmas!" Do you not think that our Communist opponents will have every right to call the U.S. a "warmongering conglomeration of assassins" (definition used by Nikita Khrushchev, whom you mention in another section of the same issue) if we display "rocket guns, interplanetary ships," even "jet-propelled Santa Claus" as toys for our kids? Have we got to indoctrinate the youngest generation with the terrors of warfare? Would not an old-fashioned Santa Claus with a red suit and white beard do all right...
...Nikita Khrushchev, once a Donbass coalminer, Politburo member since 1939. Longtime boss of the Ukraine, last month he became a secretary of the Bolshevik Central Committee...