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Lost Momentum. Less than a month stood last week between him and his deadline. As he stepped out of his bulletproof Cadillac to preside over another midnight sitting of his nine-man military politburo, the onetime jaunty bounce was gone...
...poisoned by Stalin's orders, shouts into a telephone as he lies dying: "Koba, I go, but you will follow me."- Red Army Marshal Tukhachevsky refuses to confess, and is felled by a bullet from the NKVD chief, Nikolai Yezhov. Red Army Marshal Blucher is called before the Politburo, where Stalin praises him as a genius. Marshal Voroshilov sends Blucher a look, as if to say: "Deny it. Say you haven't any genius...
Marshal Tito and the party high command wanted to replace the nine-man Politburo with a new 13-member executive committee; the delegates approved. The high command wanted to get rid of Blagoje Neskovic, a Politburocrat and a Vice Premier, because he had been displaying pro-Cominform sympathies; the delegates sacked Neskovic...
...Black Sea mutiny, the Spanish Civil War and ir many a skullbreaking French Communist riot, the party gave one month's time for "auto-criticism." Last week, dissatisfied with his "obstinate refusal . . . to confess ... his serious political deviations," the French Communist Party fired him from its ten-man Politburo...
...powerful Presidium (25 full members, eleven alternates) to replace the defunct Politburo (TIME, Sept. 1). No. 1 on the list of Presidium members: Joseph Stalin. Chief aides: Molotov, Malenkov, Beria. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, His Master's Voice at the U.N. (see above), got a pat on the back: he was included as an alternate member of the Presidium (his Menshevik past has previously kept him from higher honors). Politburocrat Andrei Andreev, onetime boss of collective farms, was not on the list...