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...back to business. For many months the Soviet Union had disregarded a U.S. request to negotiate a settlement of the $1 i billion in Lend-Lease which the U.S. had given during the war. More than half that sum had been for military supplies. Last week Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov finally consented to discuss it. State Department officials sat down with him to tabulate the long overdue bill...
Excerpts from the script were carried in the Moscow News, only English language daily newspaper in the Soviet Union. The play, written by Nikolai Virta, has not yet appeared on any screen
...only jarring note came in Boston, where Russia's Nikolai Bassov coldly demanded a plebiscite of U.N.'s prospective hosts. Obviously he had not forgotten last spring's outburst by a Massachusetts judge against "godless Russia." But Bostonians replied to a radio appeal with a 100-to-1 vote welcoming...
...hated Lavrenty Beria, head of the secret police. Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer. Others are Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian foreign trade chief, who enjoys Stalin's personal favor but has little party following, and a dark horse, Nikolai Bulganin, the political boss of the Army. Molotov, Beria and Malenkov are loosely grouped as the reactionary anti-Westerners. But as long as Stalin lives the whole gang will stick together, and Zhdanov, who was once against mass purges, will willingly follow the Politburo's cultural purge wherever...
...Soviet Ambassador Nikolai V. Novikev finished his hour-long speech to the U. N. Trusteeship Committee, Great Britain, south Africa, and the united States immediately countered with off-the-floor statements denying the Russian allegations...