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Died. Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, 64, one of two Jews* holding top-ranking posts in the U.S.S.R.; reportedly of a heart attack. A longtime Stalin favorite, he was a veteran revolutionist, editor of Pravda, vice-commissar of defense, and army political commissar. As Commissar of State Control, Mekhlis was wartime production boss (he directed the evacuation of industry to the east) and chief inspector of the Soviet economy until illness forced his retirement in 1950. Red leaders, busy at their purge of Jews, announced to the world their "profound grief " at Mekhlis' death and staged an elaborate state funeral...
...power which rules one half the world and threatens the other half. For the first time in 15 years, the Kremlin deliberately announced to the world the existence of a plot within the high Communist circle. "As far as the inspirers of these hireling killers are concerned," vowed Pravda, "they can be assured that Nemesis will not forget them...
...Pravda cited the unmasking of a bourgeois nationalist agitator in the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh republic. It said B. Suleimenov had wormed his way into the Communist party through deceit and had carried out "political double dealing...
...Said Pravda: "Presenting himself as an exposer of bourgeois nationalists, he carried on active nationalistic work and dragged hostile 'little ideas' into his lectures...
Vigorously attacking naive education officials. Pravda added: "In order to liquidate sabotage, it is necessary to put an end to gullibility in our ranks and create an atmosphere of high political vigilance...