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Whas Who nC 4 Communists Head Hierarchy WEE .

As Successors to Stalin’s Mantle Molotov, Zhdanov, Beria and Bulganin

Are All Masters of Russ Ideology

By OLAND-D. RUSSELL, Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Mar. 9—When the

® Molotov

He’s 57 years old, with a head shaped like a cube. His name years old. He wears a pince-nez, means “Bammer,” but privately Russians sometimes call him like Himmler; is tall, heavy-set

y talk about a successor to

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believes Beria’s new job is to head up Russia's atomic war activities. || He may not know how to make! an atom bomb, but he knows how

to keep people quiet who might be| making one. Lavrenti Paviovitch Beria is 49

Planning to enter the

“Kamenny Zad” —not a pretty | word, it means “stone bottom.”

featuring numerous teeth. But he hasn't charmed many people lately. Mostly he’sg

argument, : terrifically Molotov

mats by his slow,

produced by an arfhy of aids. fling clerk kid ever seen.

leader, just a follower —an old-

February, 1917. Siberian

of Stalin’s brusque humor. & bureaucracy run, and in re-

broken into Who's Who in Amerfca, 1048-49 edition, with a wooden, unexciting biography that ends up with his address: “The Kremlin, Moscow Zhdanov Another adroit conhiver and a

given the job of organizing the

Comin intern, the old Communist International. He writes the lines that

everywhere parrot, #8 ;

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orm, new name for Com-|p, got another job — “special tasks.” A returned correspondent, however, ptate bank.

Politburo, possessed of a salty mild-mannered and some have When he turns on the charm, wit. They say, too, that some-|found him “charming.” he has a Teddy Roosevelt smile|times he actually presents ideas and opinions of his own rather

‘than falling béick on stenciled security, high in the running as a quotations from Lenin and Stalin. possible successor. He has a little leeway there, : though, as chief mouthpiece of Communist ideology. Zhdanov—first name Andrel— have fallen by the wayside since! hag 3 Jecent importalt political VE-day, to his credit. the ring part of the war as im- Bylganin has grown steadily in| mediately afterward the army Stature. was riding high in the Soviet set-| deputy prefnier a year ago, and up. ’ Flushed with victories and : wordy. He irritates fellow diplo- heady from the headlines, generobdurate als began talking up, distributing method of bargaining. He has a their weight unevenly. Zhdanov|'d great capacity for detail—mass-/got the nod to put the generals’ and the army back in place, He/ Lenin once called him the best|did. The army no longer challenges the party's position, and| Curiously, though, everybody party membership has gone up to|4 thinks he’s first in line to suc-|around five million, A big headceed Stalin. He's never been a|mark for Zhdanov, . Previously he won fame for time, old-line Bolshevik who was | master-minding the defense of on hand in St. Petersburg when Leningrad against the German the first revolution broke out in siege. Stalin was in{some ways, he'd probably out- reviewed the troops. exile then, Lenin and tough Stalin,

Beria

J He's the Himmler of Russia, , he became something|Who rose to be topman of the|the Germans approached, and his of a Stalin today—often the butt secret police—~the MVD, which | organization of citizens into dewas the old NKVD, which was|fense battalions and general conBut he learned how to make the old OGPU.

He purged the

cent years has picked up plenty|purged the ones who started the ment officials who had removed of experience dealing with for-|/purging. Always ‘ eign governments. Also, he's just [emerged on top. As commissar of

magician of ideology. He Was|p hind him

See the

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Miniature models of a schoolroom, an office, a home.

This week only.

He's no wealkling, In|back, he cut a neat figure as he

Beria

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and rather elegant. Also, he’s

A Georgian, like Stalin, he has long been close to the leader, and 3 from the standpoint of internal

Bulganin

Other generals and war heroes

but Marshal Nikolai! He was appointed a,

made a marshal last November. On Nov. 7, as defense minister and in the absence of Stalin, he made the key speech when the Soviet army massed its ex-

“ dierly looking Bulganin man on horseBut Bulganin has always been regarded more as a skilled administrator than a soldier,

He was mayor of Moscow when

duct of the city’s defense won people who |him plaudits from the govern-

to the safety of a capital in the Urals. After the Germans were turned back, he was made a lieutenant general-—the beginning of a rapid rise in Soviet politics. Though he’s no professional soldier, he's the army's representative in the hierarchy — and would have the army behind him in any factional fight with party chiefs for Stalin's mantle. He's 52 years old, tall and gray. He was a co-ordinator of heavy industry for a time during the war and once was. chairman of the

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Purdue University garden speclalists will lecture and show colored slides and drawings fer gardeners of the city and Marion County tomorrow at morning and afternoon sessions in the PurdueMarott Agricultural Center. W. B. Ward, assistant professor of horticulture, will talk about vegetable gardening, small fruits, lawns, trees and shrubs at 10 a. m. GG. E. Lehker, assistant professor of entomology, will conduct discussions on insect cons trol for flowers, vegetables, trees and shrubs at 11:15 a. m. and &t 12:45 p. m. 2 C. Gordon Milner, floriculture specialist, will talk about flowers: Varieties, cultural requirements, fertilizer and disease at 1:30 p. m. From 2:45 p. m, until 3:30 p. m,, the speakers will answer questions on gardening.

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