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Died. Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, 64, one of two Jews* holding top-ranking posts in the U.S.S.R.; reportedly of a heart attack. A longtime Stalin favorite, he was a veteran revolutionist, editor of Pravda, vice-commissar of defense, and army political commissar. As Commissar of State Control, Mekhlis was wartime production boss (he directed the evacuation of industry to the east) and chief inspector of the Soviet economy until illness forced his retirement in 1950. Red leaders, busy at their purge of Jews, announced to the world their "profound grief " at Mekhlis' death and staged an elaborate state funeral...
Into Voznesensky's job as chief planner went his assistant, Maxim Zakharovich Saburov, who had been hauled up from obscurity two years ago, appointed a Deputy Prime Minister. At the same time Ivan T. Golyakov was relieved of his duties as President of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R...
...Western powers were pressing hard for a fair vote by holding up credits to Poland (the British withheld $12 million; the U.S. withheld $40 million, granted $50 million after Poland lifted censorship on U.S. correspondents last week). But Russia was pressing harder. Said the Soviet Ambassador to Poland, Victor Zakharovich Lebedev, recently: "My friends, if you want gold, you shall have gold. If you want wheat, you shall have wheat...
...Russians went to bat again the morning after-this time for Indonesia. The Ukraine's Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky started off mildly enough, charging on the basis of newspaper clippings that Britain was "endangering genuine national aspirations." Quipped Bevin: a newspaper has three functions: to amuse, to entertain, to mislead. The joke was ill-timed, and Vishinsky grimly pounced on it. The Briton had to listen while the totalitarian defended Britain's free press: "The fact that there is a free press in Britain entitles us to place some credence...
Certainly many Red army officers who served under him in the Far East were purged. One good reason why Russia showed little enthusiasm for the Czecho-slovak cause fortnight ago was that her two top-rank military heads, Defense Commissar Kliment E. Voroshilov and Vice Commissar of Defense Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, were not even in Moscow. They were over 3,000 miles away keeping a personal watch on the purge's progress in Siberia...
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