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...personnel manager, he helped his boss build up a hierarchy of young technocrat-commissars. To get his men into key jobs, Malenkov had to shove out many a stubborn old Bolshevik. At the Commissariat of Heavy Industry, where old-line Commissar Ordzhonikidze gave notice that he would resist purging, Malenkov quietly put in his own security chief. The new man quickly turned over the commissariat's personnel files to the NKVD (central secret police), thus putting them in a position to purge most of Ordzhonikidze's engineers and to get rid of the troublesome old Commissar himself...
...speedup last summer that he now thinks it can be basically achieved for China's 585 million in about three more years. Apparently Mao believes his great purge of 1950-51, in which perhaps as many as 15 million died, so effectively destroyed the Chinese will to resist that he can now press on with complete collectivization of the land without having to kill more millions in a new blood bath...
...Democratic. Predicted chaos, however, did not arise in this non-election year. The paper managed to steer a moderate course, somewhat to the left of President Eisenhower, and considerably to the right of former President Truman. While we took comparatively few swipes at the president himself, we could not resist his Secretary of State...
Soviet Infiltration. Communist incursion can be halted only if the Arabs resist it. But they cannot be made to recognize that Russia is their enemy because they are obsessed with their enmity for Israel. Therefore, everything depends on settlement of the Israel-Arab dispute...
...delighted to make the picture with Miss Monroe. I have never met her, but I saw her films. I regard her as an actress and a comedienne of the first order, wonderfully easy to look at . . ."As for the bid to play opposite Marilyn, Sir Laurence said, "Who would resist an approach from Miss Monroe...