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...Chief of state: Kliment Voroshilov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet...
Last December, when Glezos was arrested again, accused along with 16 others of having abetted Communist spies in Greece, Moscow saw another fine chance to capitalize on Western sentimentality; with a wild beating of propaganda drums, Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov appealed to Greece's King Paul to free Glezos, now a left-wing newspaper editor. But years of servility to the hammer and sickle had finally exhausted the credit that Glezos won by defying the Nazis. Last week, found guilty by a military court, onetime Hero Glezos was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, four years' exile...
...anti-Semitism in the U.S.S.R., Menshikov again could only smile weakly. Kozlov, who gained a reputation as an anti-Semite during the "doctors' plot," seemed offended. "I have many friends of Jewish nationality," said he. Among them: a Leningrad rabbi, various Soviet officials, the wife of "President Voroshilov who unfortunately died recently. God give it that the Jews should live such a life in any other country as in the Soviet Union. They live better in the Soviet Union than in Israel." Just then the pilot sent back word that too many people were in the tail section...
Died. YekaterinaVoroshilov,seventyish, wife of the Soviet Union's 78-year-old Kliment Voroshilov, whose title-Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet-is the paper equivalent of "President"'; in Moscow...
...Thanked Soviet Leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Kliment Voroshilov for a New Year's greeting they had popped over by commercial cable, sent back with his return greeting a sharp reminder that U.S.S.R. policy on Berlin was hardly in accord with Happy New Year sentiments...