Word: pauker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least seven important posts, and had presumably a great future. As they sifted Shcherbakov's political ashes last week, however, Russian specialists in the outside world noted one striking fact: he was involved during the war with a clique of Communists which included Rumania's Ana Pauker, Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky, France's Charles Tillon, two of them recently cast into disfavor and one of them-Slansky-executed...
...Brother 35. Pauker was out. In Ana's native Rumania there had been another...
...talks to military personnel, and especially in the question periods which followed, Scott found widespread and intelligent interest in international problems. Some of their questions : What is the significance of the troubles of Madame Ana Pauker? How do you evaluate the work of the Voice of America? Can we hope for a split in Russia between the military and political leaders? Why does the U.S. continue to spend money abroad? Are people behind the Iron Curtain mature enough to select their own governments if liberated? Is the Schuman Plan an effective means to counteract Soviet aggression in Europe...
POLAND-No. 1 Communist when the Cominform was born was Wladyslaw Gomulka, 47, the "little Stalin" whose portrait was the political ikon on every Polish street corner; was supreme for three postwar years, then began a Pauker-like fall in 1948. Castigated by the party for "alien opportunistic ideology," and though he admitted his errors, was removed as party secretary. Present state: in prison...
BULGARIA-Vulko Chervenkov (the name means "The Red Wolf") is one of the two original Cominformists whose fortunes have improved since 1947 (the other: Ana Pauker's rival, Gheorghiu-Dej). A veteran NKVD tough who spent 19 years in Moscow, Chervenkov became brother-in-law and bodyguard to famed Communist Georgi Dimitrov. He wore a necktie for the first time in 1948, now as boss of Bulgaria takes pains to swear his "loyalty to the last breath" to Stalin. Dimitrov, star of the Reichstag trial (1933), ex-Secretary General of the old Comintern, was the big man in Bulgaria...