Word: presidium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cold War Fanned. Later in the week, at the celebration of the 36th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, old Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, spoke in bellicose tones. "It is known to all," said he, "that through the zealous efforts of aggressive circles in the U.S.A., the cold war continues and is being fanned briskly . . . The imperialist camp ... is conducting a policy of preparing...
Pravda listed him third among the Soviet bigwigs attending a recent Chinese exhibit in Moscow; he was also No. 3 in the communique announcing new Soviet concessions to East Germany and on the list of Presidium members attending the last Supreme Soviet. Current ratings: Malenkov, Molotov, Khrushchev, Marshals Voroshilov and Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich (Stalin's brother-in-law). Still unheard from: Lavrenty Beria, once No. 2, now in jail awaiting trial as a traitor...
Before the show moved on to Dresden this week, East Germany's Premier Otto Grotewohl picked the exhibit's "best." His choice: a drab and dreary panel of tea-swigging functionaries, painted by seven artists and called Meeting of the Presidium of the Academy of Science of the U.S.S.R. Declared Grotewohl: "It is colossal." And so it was-19 ft. 6 in. long by 9 ft. 10 in. high...
...Ousted in Azerbaijan: Premier Mir Dzhafar Bagirov, one of four alternate members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This was the highest-ranking arrest since Beria...
...Francisco Conference, turned out in a blue serge suit and broad-toed shoes, he was Molotov's bodyguard. Although Kruglov's police career dates from 1938, the year Beria took over, and he has always appeared to be a Beria man, the" Central Committee Presidium (Malenkov) was clearly in no doubt about where his loyalty lay, although Beria may have been...