Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinary Soviet witch-burning, and Aleksandrov no ordinary witch. Ally of Politburo Member Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov, son-in-law of Politburo Member Nikita Khrushchev, he had powerful protectors. Himself a member of the Party's Central Committee, the boss of one of its most important branches, he was close to the Soviet Union's mightiest. But it was Stalin who ordered the inquisition, and Politburo Member Andrei Zhdanov, sometimes mentioned as Stalin's probable successor, who carried it out. It was the nearest thing to a public airing of Politburo squabbling since the great purge trials...
...INTERNATIONAL) comes to fruit next September. But the prospects are far from hopeless. Apparently the Kremlin thinks the "Marshall approach" is a pretty good move-on the U.S. side of the board. Before Molotov in Paris turned down the invitation to participate, the argument in Moscow's Politburo may have gone like this...
...world, as well as the Kremlin's Politburo, wondered whether the U.S. Congress and people would back the "Marshall approach." So far, Congress is showing both a healthy skepticism and an unhealthy cynicism. One U.S. Senator said privately last week that he was willing to see Europe get $5 or $6 billion-but no more. If Europe's recovery could be bought for $5 billion instead of $15 billion, that would be fine. On the other hand, if $5 billion gets Europe only a third of the way out of the pit, $5 billion would be a waste...
...another Russia that stood and watched, in the shape of her present masters-the Politburo, lined up atop Lenin's tomb and surrounded by an army of secret policemen. All over Russia, in less dramatic settings, you sense those same counterpoints between the people and their leaders, between the lives the people would like to lead and the lives they are made to lead. You sensed them on the very train that carried me out of Russia...
...Morality of Stomachs. In China's new Government Chen holds no job. He exerts his influence in other ways. From his post as Secretary-General of the Kuomintang's Central Political Council ("the politburo"), Chen runs the local party machinery through control of hsien-township-magistrates. Chen's magistrates collect the taxes, confiscate the grain for the armies, run' conscription...