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...gold-braided dress uniform, arrived in Moscow's Red Square. He came not astride the usual cavalry charger, but perched on the back seat of a dove-hued ZIS sports car. After briefly touring the crack units up for review, he joined Georgy Malenkov and the eight other Presidium members atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb. As 150 massed bugles unloosed a mighty blast, he advanced to the microphones and began the traditional address on Soviet Russia's 36th...
...other "People's Republics" were lumped together, but Mao's was always singled out first for praise. Malenkov assigned a key man as new ambassador to Peking-Vasily Kuznetsov, newly named a deputy foreign minister, and member of last fall's shortlived, 36-man Soviet Presidium. A bright star of Malenkov's generation (52) who headed the Soviet trade-union movement until recently, Kuznetsov once punched a time clock at Ford's River Rouge plant (for a brief period in 1932), got an engineering degree at Carnegie Tech, returned...
...Malenkov shares power with four Deputy Premiers, all old hands (see box): Bena (Interior), Molotov (Foreign Affairs), Bulganin (War), and Kaganovich (Economics). Together, these five men make up the Presidium of the Council of Ministers, a kind of inner cabinet. On the charts (see NEWS IN PICTURES) they form a pentarchy, but Malenkov is clearly head...
...second-stringers are kicked downstairs, e.g., Vishinsky is now only deputy minister and chief representative at U.N. ¶At last October's Congress, the old Politburo-the world's most powerful exclusive and dangerous club, whose membership varied between 7 and 14-was replaced by the Presidium (36 members). Now the Party Presidium is cut to 14 about the size of the old Politburo, with much the same members...
...least titles). Malenkov has been careful to find other jobs for most of them, although some seem to be out in the cold. He also tried to take care of the army, the likeliest center of opposition, by kicking Marshal Voroshilov upstairs to Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium (a figurehead job usually called "President of the Soviet Union" in the West), and by appointing as Deputy Minister of War Marshal Zhukov, Russia's greatest military hero of World War II. Finally. Malenkov took pains to hand out plums to national minorities, e.g., a comrade from Azerbaijan was made...