Word: presidium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Dog." Rank-and-file Yugoslav Communists were getting an even more' sensational line on the talks. This was that there was a definite split in the top Soviet hierarchy, with pro-Titoists Khrushchev, Bulganin and Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov ranged against such anti-Titoists as Presidium Members Molotov, Kaganovich, Suslov and Soviet President Voroshilov. At a recent plenum of the Central Committee in Moscow, according to the story being circulated among the Belgrade Communists, Molotov (downgraded from Foreign Minister at the time of Tito's visit to the Soviet Union last June) had attacked Yugoslav Vice President...
...difficult for observers to trace the anti-Yugoslav cracks to their source: a group of old-line Stalinists, including ex-Foreign Minister Molotov and ex-Premier Malenkov (both pushed out of power by Khrushchev) and powerful, steely-eyed Presidium Member Mikhail Suslov; these three apparently control one or more of the many secretariats or collegia of the Central Committee, and are in a position to plug their own line...
...keeping the satellite and foreign parties completely subservient to Moscow's will, and that any relaxation of this attitude, as happened in Poland, means big trouble and may mean final disintegration of the Soviet empire. In opposition to this view stands First Party Secretary Khrushchev, backed by Presidium Member Mikoyan and other top anti-Stalinists, who believe that a certain autonomy must be given the satellite and foreign parties-and have been giving it. .Khrushchev's spectacular destalinization program launched last February gave him a dramatic lead over the old-line Stalin ists, but since then the Poznan...
Confidence Unbounded. For all that, the Chinese Reds were feeling a little boastful after their seven years in power. If there was a dominating characteristic, it was confidence. "We have achieved great successes in every field," said Mao. Added Presidium Member Liu Shao-chi, the party's No. 2 man and reigning theorist: "Our party, under the leadership of the Central Committee headed by Comrade Mao Tse-tung, has not made any mistake in its line during the past 25 years." Public Security Minister Lo Jui-ching, who between 1950 and 1955 had directed the greatest mass liquidation...
Still taboo: all speculation that the Red army is nudging into power, reports of the public pot-tossing and private lives of the Presidium bosses and their personal disagreements with one another. Says the Times's Welles Hangen: "Soviet censorship is becoming less severe, but it remains arbitrary and capricious." For example, when the ouster of Internal Affairs Minister Sergei Kruglov was revealed in a back-page item in Pravda, the Times bureau filed a story at 6 a.m. labeling Kruglov's successor as a Khrushchev man. It passed. That afternoon Hangen wrote a second-day story elaborating...