Word: politbureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than scare off the random thoughts of the other members. Some alert House secretary might announce an enticing subject one or twice a week--or, if all went well, several subjects for several talk teams. And if the matter of the meeting veered from the Vandalian invasions to the Politbureau to the delayed buck, that would be all right too. The causes of both general education and the House Plan would be served...
Left Bank. On the left bank of the Rhine, dismay and confusion marched in Communism's ranks. Thorez & comrades, who had campaigned, along with the rest of France, for a Ruhr detached from Germany, found themselves suddenly in clear opposition to Russia. Said one member of the French Politbureau: " 'It never rains but it pours' was not a proverb invented by Karl Marx, but as far as we are concerned, it might as well have been. After the constitutional rebuff, the near defeat at the elections, last week's slapping down in the Chamber...
...herself, Joseph Stalin picked a man who represented the state bureaucracy he had created. An old-guard Bolshevik, Molotov was a quiet political boss who had risen through hard, unspectacular work to be President of the Council of People's Commissars (Premier) and a member of the powerful Politbureau. In Russia he was known as the father of the collective farm movement...