Word: secretariat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders and tens of thousands of its minor functionaries. For 13 years there was no full meeting of the Central Committee and, according to Khrushchev himself, Politburo meetings were a sham. In its last years, the Stalin regime was a pure autocracy. Stalin ruled through a personal secretariat controlled by a "special sector" whose head was Malenkov. The famous names that ranked beside Stalin's in the Politburo and in the government ministries were those of privileged shop-window dummies and personal toadies whom Stalin switched around at will, and sometimes caused to disappear...
...might just as accurately be called a memoir, a short-story collection or a religious tract. The 37-year-old author is the daughter of Britain's pinko Pundit Konni Zilliacus, Laborite Member of Parliament. During her untrammeled childhood, when her father was with the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva, Stella Zilliacus obviously kept her eyes open and the tape recorder of her memory turned on. Real names drop like ripe plums-Nehru, H. G. Wells, Anthony Eden, Bernard Shaw-and the fictional ones seem to be readily guessable. What emerges is a wickedly witty portrait...
Last week, in an effort to get the Hungarian Communist Party on its feet again, Puppet Kadar announced a new 14-man central committee and a reshuffle in the party secretariat. To be his first deputy president: Ferenc Munnich, 71-year-old Communist veteran of the Bela Kun regime, the Spanish civil war and long residence in Moscow, who as Minister...
...Party's biggest vote getter and the idol of its rank and file, this was a potent threat. Hastily the newly elected central committee granted Nenni's demand that it endorse his Socialist unification policy and give his supporters a majority of the seats in the party secretariat...
Most British newsmen agree that the royal family, now almost openly hostile to the press, is at least partly to blame. Royal public relations are handled through a Press Secretariat whose tight-lipped refusal to discuss even a Balmoral barbecue forces newsmen to patch up stories from gossip, invention and half-truth. Important royal events outside the palace, complain reporters, are usually handled by bumbling local officials. Only when newsmen threatened to boycott Princess Margaret's recent African tour in mid-trip was she allowed to make news by mingling with the natives, thus realize the tour...