Word: presidium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Bucharest last week came another of those grimly familiar communiques out of the Land of Darkness at Noon: "Ana Pauker has been relieved of her functions by the Presidium of the National Assembly." And so another Cominformist bit the dust. Five years ago, 18 Communist big shots gathered somewhere in Poland "to reorganize the general staff of the world revolution." Of these 18, two have been executed, two excommunicated; two have risen higher in favor, at least three, and possibly five, have been purged. Moreover, the leadership of every one of the six principal satellites in the Cominform...
...workers hate to take a day off to rest and play when they could be spending long hours at the lathe, the desk or the work bench. So, "to meet the wishes of the majority of the workers, bearing in mind the many requests received from trade unions," the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet last week ruled that Jan. 22, official Day of Memory for Lenin, will no longer be a day off. The workers, said the Presidium, had "correctly" taken the position "that the holding of a public holiday . . . is not in keeping" with the revering of Lenin...
...President of the U.S. read a fast translation of a letter from the President of the Presidium of the U.S.S.R. Technically, it was a reply to a note that Harry Truman had sent off to Moscow four weeks before, along with a congressional resolution expressing U.S. good will for the Russian people. He glanced rapidly over President Shvernik's professions of Russia's peaceful intentions, shoved the paper back at an aide and snorted: Bunkum. Then the President swung back to a full week's work in which...
...special committee picked by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) last week announced the seven winners of the new International Stalin Peace Prizes-gold medals bearing the image of Joseph Stalin and cash bounties of 100,000 rubles each (about $25,000). In the order of precedence...
...typical story of a Communist dupe-and Thomas Mann had shown himself to be only too susceptible to the Communist shell game. The Warsaw Peace Conference had elected Dr. Mann to its presidium in absentia, and Mann had had to cable a protest and his explanation: he had written France's Communist Dr. Joliot-Curie refusing to attend the conference but expressing his sympathy for Joliot-Curie's efforts for peace. Mann had refused to sign the Stockholm petition, but had sent a recorded message to Chicage's Mid-Century Conference for Peace, taken over...