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...Central Committee. He has allowed himself to be named as one of a previously unheard-of subcommittee (the others: Zhdanov and Shcherbakov, both deceased, and Bulganin) to direct military policy during World War II. On his 60th birthday (April 17, 1954) he graciously accepted the Order of Lenin (his fourth) and was made a Hero of Socialist Labor. At a Moscow reception he told a British newsman: "Churchill speaks for Britain, I speak for the Soviet Union...
...armed forces right now, telling our men that, if captured by the Reds, they may sign any document the Communists want them to, or appear on radio or TV programs and deliver any script the Reds hand them. Tell them they can confess that the United States poisoned Lenin and Stalin; they can call the President a capitalist, warmongering dog of Wall Street; they can broadcast peace appeals, agree to settle behind the Iron Curtain when the war is over, and sign long-term leases on houses in Moscow. Give the Reds anything they want for propaganda purposes and defy...
...blue, women in black. The uniforms of political prisoners are stenciled, top and bottom, with combinations of numerals and letters which tell prison officials at a glance the prisoner's history. No histories could be more varied. The camps contain Old Bolsheviks who claim acquaintance with Lenin and Trotsky, Socialists, at least 30 Wehrmacht generals and several thousands of German prisoners of war, thousands of Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, executioners who worked for the SS in the Ukraine, SS men, thousands of Russian and Ukrainian Jews (some of them victims of the "little pogrom" just before Stalin...
...20th century, journalism is increasingly the path to politics, as the law was in the 19th. The century's most famous journalist-politicians are Clemenceau, Churchill, Lenin and Mussolini. Some others: Italy's Alcide de Gasperi, Texas' Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ohio's Warren Harding, Brazil's President Café Filho, Britain's Richard Grossman, Illinois' Frank Knox, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Blair Moody, Washington state's Warren Magnuson, South Dakota's Francis Case, Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, Idaho's Henry Dworshak, Louisiana's Edward Hebert...
...Every woman-cook," cried little Red Father Lenin in the first flush of revolution, "can rule the state." But instead the state soon ruled the women, liberating them from the "old household slavery" and giving them equal rights with men only so that they could also carry hods, puddle steel and unload barges. "The hardest-worked sex in the country and perhaps in the world," cried appalled Feminist Perle Mesta last year after seeing her sisters under the shawl in Russia. In 37 years no woman ever sat in the Soviet Politburo. Ana Pauker, onetime Rumanian Foreign Minister...