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...Central Committee of the Fatherland Front cordially promised to study the reforms proposed. Volko Tchervenkoff, member of the Communist Politburo, proclaimed: the Fatherland Front, having won the world's praise by agreeing to postpone the elections, would now win still more by giving the opposition every chance for a fair campaign. At week's end the Cabinet legalized the four opposition parties, promised free elections. Expected in Sofia soon from Moscow was another, better known Georgi Dimitroff, famed Communist international operative and onetime secretary of the former Communist International. Object of his mission: to organize the new Fatherland...
...Falls . . ." When Dmitry Manuilsky takes his seat in the Politburo...
Cymbals & Silence. When Bierut and his Warsaw colleagues (Osubka-Morawski, Kowalski and Gomulka) arrived at Moscow's airport, they were greeted by Foreign Commissar Molotov, Vice Commissar Vyshinsky, Politburo brass hats and a vast blare of tubas, trumpets, cymbals and drums...
Died. Colonel General Alexander Sergeivich Shcherbakov, 44, massive (300 Ibs.) Communist man-of-all-political-work and longtime friend of Stalin, who was simultaneously head of the Soviet Information Bureau, member of the all-powerful Politburo, chief of the Red Army's political department, secretary of the Central Communist Party, and political boss of Moscow; of a heart ailment; in Moscow. Politico Shcherbakov's death, on the first day of European peace, was pronounced "Rus sia's greatest wartime casualty." Died. ThomasMontgomery Howell, 63, tiny, bigtime fisherman and Wall Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain...
...Until then," the Tsarina went on, "we enjoyed a pleasant, if rather insubstantial, life. We used to haunt the Casino at Monte Carlo. But after the partition of Poland, Nicky insisted on returning to Russia. He began to attend the meetings of the Politburo. The Politburo! Oh, those interminable speeches. . . . Ah, Katorga...