Word: politburocrat
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...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...
...shoot at. Even in Russia, seniors, pushed aside, resent young upstarts. Molotov, for one, could bear him a grudge because Malenkov exposed Mrs. Molotov's inefficiency. She lost her job first as head of the Cosmetics Trust, then as head of the Fish Industry. Kaganovich, a ranking Politburocrat and a Jew, could resent Malenkov's ill-concealed antiSemitism. But Malenkov, unlike Judy Holliday (see CINEMA), was not born yester day: he cultivated one mighty friend in the Politburo, Lavrenty Beria, head of the secret police...
...chief report at the Congress will be made by Georgy Malenkov, the tough, 50-year-old Politburocrat who has shot up through the party like a skunk cabbage (he weighs 250 Ibs.). In the past, the post of chief "reporter" has been held only by Lenin and Stalin. This signal honor is further evidence that Malenkov, son of an Orenburg Cossack and long regarded in the West as Stalin's most probable successor, is moving closer & closer to the top. Malenkov used to be Stalin's personal secretary, is said to have a phenomenal memory capable of recalling...
...early this week and handed the world another great big question mark. On the plane were 15 top-level Chinese government and military leaders, headed by Red China's Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. On the ground to greet them was Russia's No. 2 man, Politburocrat Vyacheslav Molotov...
RUMANIA-Ana Pauker, 58, porcine First Lady of Communism reigned in Red Rumania as Foreign Minister and Politburocrat; more than any other Rumanian Red, was the link between Moscow and Bucharest. Began sliding last month (TIME, June 9) when accused of "crimes against the state." Confessed to deviation both right & left, and saw her power transferred to her rival, Georghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who, along with her, was Rumania's spokesman at the Comin-fornrs birth. Purged last week as Foreign Minister. Probable fate: public trial, imprisonment or death...