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Last week the Moscow censor passed a report that Marshal Georgi Zhukov, head of all Soviet land forces, had been assigned to command the Odessa military district. It was as though Ike Eisenhower had been sent back to San Antonio. The Soviet press did not mention the move, but the world outside erupted with rumors...
...YORK-Generlissimo Stalin has quietly carried out a shake-up in the high command of the Red Army, it became known tonight, in which Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, top Soviet war here, has been relegated to the relatively obscure command of the Odessa Military District...
...extent of the changes in the top level of the Soviet High Command was not yet fully known. However, it was understood that Stalin has carried out a through-going reorganization and that Zhukov is not the only commander to suffer a sudden change in status...
...Army's vigilant rocket guns and long-range artillery rolled through Red Square, Stalin stood on the topmost level of Lenin's tomb. Smiling affably, he leaned over to the level below, bright with bemedaled Red Army officers, and invited Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov to come up and stand beside him. Down on the streets, the proletariat clustered around cheap food stands, dance bands and vaudeville shows...
Blond, 200-lb. Russian Ambassador Dmitri Alexandrovich Zhukov, who had chartered a DC-4 in Newark last week and had flown down with his wife and two children, seemed more embarrassed than pleased by the flamboyant reception. He hastily denied a local Communist boast that he was Marshal Georgi Zhukov's nephew, said he merely shared the same name-"just as Fernandez is the name of your Foreign Minister and also that of a prize fighter, Antonio Fernández...