Word: politburo
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...appears that Mr. Cobb would defend the hecklers on still another ground, for he states that "the total disregard for the movements of the Politburo ... by most of the speakers showed all too clearly where their true sentiments lie." Besides being logically ridiculous, the statement's implications are patently false. At least six of the nine speakers are well known to be unqualifiedly opposed to Communism; four of them prefaced their speeches with declarations in support of the Marshall Plan; three of these represented groups which in effect bar Communists from membership. In the light of these facts, the reference...
...will not argue the case for U.M.T. here, but it seems to me that the total disregard for the movements of the Politburo at last Saturday's meeting by most of the speakers showed all too clearly where their true sentiments...
...police state marching west across Europe, south across Asia, was embodied in the person of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Marshal of the Soviet Union (he never fired a shot), Hero of Socialist Labor (he never swung a pick), Member of the Politburo. He is a steady, quiet type who .has a wife, two children and a suburban villa to which he commutes in a Packard -with the shades always drawn...
...Politburo meeting, he contradicted Stalin on a minor matter. The Leader suddenly (and for the first time on such an occasion) let go with several frightening Georgian curses. Dzerzhinsky suffered an apoplectic stroke and died. The Soviet press always refers to him as "Fearless Knight of the Revolution...
...dollars" keep Communism out of Western Europe? Arthur Vandenberg admitted that ERP was simply "the best of calculated risks." But Kem insisted on having some kind of "reasonable assurance." Snapped Vandenberg: "Can the Senator from Missouri give me any reasonable assurance as to what the plans of the Politburo are . . . regarding their conquest of the west...