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...first victory, a few days after Stalin's death (a victory undoubtedly obtained with the support of other Old Communists), had been to ease Stalin Protégé Malenkov out of the First Party Secretaryship, and 23 months later to force him to resign the Premiership, pleading incompetence ("My insufficient experience, my guilt and responsibility") on the way. This success may have given Khrushchev the key to his later maneuverings, for they were based on the tactic of winning to his side those people persecuted by Stalin, e.g., Zhukov and other Red marshals, and boldly stigmatizing...
Taking the Rap. The post-Molotov policy in the satellites and Egypt has been one of Nikita Khrushchev's staggering failures, but apparently it has not yet weakened his hold on the first party secretaryship. Last week the Central Committee, meeting in Moscow, decided that Shepilov should take the rap and sent him back to his secretarial duties after only eight months as Foreign Minister. His successor: Andrei A. Gromyko...
...successful academic career at the University of London, Gaitskell entered the civil service in 1940 as a secretary to Hugh Dalton in the Ministry of Economic Welfare. After the war, he was elected to Parliament and, as one of a group of young Socialist intellectuals, rose to the secretaryship of the Ministry of Fuel and Power. There, and as Minister for Economic Affairs and later Chancellor of the Exchequer, he held key posts in the post-war Labor government beset by economic dislocation at home and in Europe...
...conclusion that my political career is over. It is my fault . . . Free me from my responsibilities and allow me to work in a small party position." But Stalin demanded a groveling confession, and when Gomulka resisted, he was dismissed and Moscow-trained Boleslaw Bierut took over the party secretaryship...
...Bolshevik, Kaganovich supported Stalin against Trotsky in the fight for power after Lenin died and was rewarded in 1930 with a Politburo seat and the first-secretaryship of the powerful Moscow Party Committee. It was in this job that he took under his political wing a mild-mannered and goateed young functionary named Nikolai Bulganin...