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THE CHINA MAIL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1947.
STALIN'S SUCCESSOR?
Moscow, June 2.
By. R.H. SHACKFORD] the mon holding top positions
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within the Soviet Union.
Most foreign officinje in Mon-¡ Soviet newspapers and other cow as well as unofficial for publications never give any cigners, tere would name three positive clues to the Soviet hierarchy.
Provision for a successor to Stalin on his death lins almost certainly been made. The Hus sinn leaders are not the kind
men as wielding the most in- fluence in the Soviet regime: Vyachesiny Molotov, the For- eign Minister, Andrei Zhdanov, private secretary to Stalin for several years
and now
First
and
the former
The eclipse of milthey men in the public life of the Soviet Managing Editor; W.J. Keates.Union is one of the most inter cating post-war Russian de Telephonga:
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velopments. In contrast to the Editors
United States where many key Reporters & General Ofce 32312 (four now)
Kovernment posts are now hold Subscription Rates:
by professional military men, 11.K.$18.00 the Soviets-top soldiers are HL.K.$30,00 now completely overshadowed H.K.$72.00
by Communist Party lenders.
of men who would not provide Alternate Secretary General to During the rreen Soviet plec for such a contingency. They the Communist Party, which
holis, tions, no topilight military mis olot their politics with as much position Stalin was reported nominated for detail as military campaigns, Lavrent. “Berin, any post Even during the Stalin's successor certainly will operating head of the Secretį visit to Moscow that winter of) be a member of the Politburo. | Police and still apparently res Admirable as is its spirit, it is British Field Marshal Viscount | Stalin is 67 years old. Since ponsible for it. He conducted. difficult t take great cumfurt | Montgomery, Party leaders the war he has been taking life) the purgen-in the mid-thirties from the pledge given by Maj were seated at the Kremliu considerably more сану than and like Stalla is a Georgina,
Of these three, Director-General banquet so as to outrank So when he directed the military
most obser- Reads, of Uma, that foter or correion: viet military Marshids present campaign against the Nazis.] vers agree, Zhdanny is the only will never be used in the yepatika-
This is in sharp contenit to. Despite
rumoural one who figures prominently if recurring his health, recent visi-ut all in the line of succession. |tion of Europe's 200,000 displaced the United States, where the about
say he Reems' in good] And furthermore, he probably, For Untra itself is in wartime Chief of Staff has tora
come Secretary of State, a Gen- shape. Both the Republiens) is the most likely successor. +- of dissolution, and that
United States ern is
Ambas candidate Harold Stassen and!
Outstanding part of its great work which con-
nador to Russin, another Gen- the men who accompanied Gen-| sisted in baking after and
eral runs Japan for the United egal George Marshall to desitgift mið. parating where
States and generals are the top Kremfin altested to that. Fears of displaced wanderers ends] figuren in the military govern at the June's end. The Inter ments set up in Europe, In national Refugee Organisation; view of the Soviet attitude to-1
now that which is to take its place starts ward military men with fat smaller funds artil less the war is over it can be said asured political imeking. More categorically, that a high led er, the fate of the refugees ulti Army man in even in the run-
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No Clues
Two ather men even less the
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4 better change than it is only natural that much either Molotov or Berin. They thought must have been given] are George Malenkov, the 46-
Kremlin in inside the
recent year-old "Young Turk" of the years to Stalin's successor.. Politburo who became a full
Superficial
member only a year ago, and
The only fasts the outsider | Andrei Andreyev, who since the bus on which to speculate or war has been given, the import- judge varying' fortunes of highj ant job of rehabilitating So- Soviet officials arc largely viet agricultures. superficial--the publicity
After Stalin, Zhdanov in the
and
The favourite game of for eign visitors to Moscow is spe- the recent elections, the size of outstanding" man Inside Russia
Generalissimo the pictures displayed during "oday. It was Zhdanov during) rulating Stalin's successor. But probably; rulebrations such as the Novem the last year who, Bratly, de
no speculation in the world has her Revolution Anniversary | Hvered the last November less factual material on which and May Day, and who signs vehition Anniversary
The out-secondly, hended 1.0 operate. The Russians important deertes,
never discuss the subject, and sider also knows the names of signers of the
Nature's Record Fasters
By FRANK LANE
Nature's champion fasters, realise 1 hardly way anything.
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ponents played the hand hearts. If he had been prepared
Trumps, In case his double, scared them into that, then it would have been akay. But he had no defoncé against those declaratiquis,
speech: the Hat uf obituary of Zeralyachko. an oldtime Rol- shevik Centrul Committee mem- ber; thirdly, next to Stalin re-
Among all the spots in whichi su to double 6-Spades or G erived more publicity than any a player should not make other member of the Politburo business double, the outstanding during the recent elections, and, is that in which he is likely to fourthly, signed the decree scare the opponents out of which started the purge in col- beatable contract inte, a makablej lective farm management in the one. That applies alike to slum. effort to eliminate Incficiency.
the Politburo.-United Press.
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mately rests not with nov inter- national organisation at all, hot Governments, with indis relat which have their awn views OD what aheus they will admin or ex ipel, und may be able to almost irresistible pressure fratt power- folgbarALTING We may have enlle faith that the refugees will not be forcibly driven, from aby territories in British control; the same belief applies to regions uster American authority, ausd. jandose by parwal traditions, to French administrations, Bin the Countries behind the "Iron Cur ta" cannot be said to recognise i
North overtaking with the A the displaced person problem at I once fusted for thirty-two length of me, but 1 do all, and the uncertainty of weaker days. For a fortnight i had that scientists of the New York!
Zhdanov's background is per- The prospective doubler should and switching to his heart. 2. natgas sheltering political re-
water only and for the rest 1 Zonjogtral Society have taken feet for the job. Stalin named be particularly wary If the on. After taking that, East took out
embedded in their him to succeed Sergei Kirov, ponents have bid a couple of fuge is illustrated by the anxiety lived manly on fruit and vege- lungfishes, widely elt for the fate of table juices. At the end of the mud cakes, put them on labora- the Leningrad Party secretary, different sults, or more, so that and then spread his hand.
and kept them whose assassination in 1934 there is high probability another, Jugoslas Piles at present in Italy. thirty-two days I weighed about try shelves,
And started the famous purgesault will break fortuitously for The term "displaced prisons” Iwenty-seven pounds less than 1 there for abveral years.
been During the war he "ran"
them. originally covered a far wider did when I started the fast. I when the fish have then
during the Nazi] they Leningrad thought after that Ex- put habe an aquarios, rategy than political or racial really
he is It included the hordes perience that I knew something have been swimming about cat-slege of that city. In addition, member of both the fasting, but when 1ng within a few hours of being
secretariat Communist Party of slave labourers deported fromationst
have thri native countries to work for rumpare my fasl with sonfe of released. From what I
of read of these fish and the ex- and the Communist Party Or the German war-machine, as well the Teals put up by a few
periments in enforced long-time ganiation Bureau, as smaller groups of civilians tem-
fasting which they have been important organisations under II. 866 4 porarily moved by the. Allies or
subjected. I should say The enemy from immediate battle- zones. The vast majority of these, it was be assumed, are already back in their former Jones, The In any event my "fast was only kept for six years in their mud
the water cake-without, of course, Partial remember present residue consists partly of and juices) and was reckong in food or water those who fear to return 30 days. | countries which have new and un- | sympathetic_regimes, particularly fasting are reckoned in years, some very lowly noimals-licks. citizens of Poland and the former and during that time they don't. The habit of these unlovely Haltic States, partly of persons even have a sip_uf-water, let erentures is to wait on Krans Cat German race no longer wel-alone the such of im orange or or other vegetation until
come in the Slav chûntries, and a grape! -
warm blooded animal brushes partly of Jews incertain of their I wonder if you've heard the past, and then they cling to it blood. But a tick future jrt many. regions
was and enck Its of story of the null that Europe.
to tablet By propaganda, by gummed
in the may have to wall a long time in before a suitable host comes gifts of rations to take with Natural History Museum) them, and by the simple pressure London and then, years after, along, and to enable it to live of discomfort, many thousands of it woke up and tried to crawl' during this period it is remark- similar exiles have been persuaded away? Believe me, that story is ably resistent to starvation, Do it has been proved
Dr. Waldenrich Bald tha ron ya know perfectly true. The anait return. But there IN
from
cerned was an Egyptian desert that some tlcks can live
a human skeleton, now being used electrical devices-or mo- the "general character of the counter-pressure
Eastern
at the National dern divining rod-to locate the bones indicates that the indivi Europe which is driving fresh snail, and it remained gummed seven and a half years without inspected
on the tablet for four years and food? And I don't think that's a Muscum of Anthropology in spot where the ancient fossila dual belongs to the recent hu- exiles into the Western zones.
known as Homo then, one day, an official of the record, because I have seen Mexico City. It was dug
man type," up were buried. It would be unrealistic to suge Museum noticed signa of life, reference to other ticks which near the village of Tepexpan, Dr. de Terra, also writing in Sapiens or man he ią gest that all such, refugees are He took the sun out of the are alleged to have lived Mexico, lust February 22 and] "Science" today, Buid:—
known today. desirable citizens for any country case, and put it in tepid water, eighteen yours without food. enused a stir umong those sock- "Without this geophysical From a study of the bones. human nature is seldom improved After about fifteen minutes the But I haven't been able to con- ing for trucċa of early man in survey, the foamil could not Dr, Weldenrich, and there was hv
America. involuntary transplantation. snail began' walking about, and firm that,
have been located, since the no evidence to contradict that Yet there is every evidence that the next day it began to feed. When I first came across the Writing in the magazine ground offered no clues other the man lived at the end of much fine human material and Even four years is not a re. account of the African .lang- "Science," Dr. Franz Welden- than the presence of several the glacial period. He recalled. much trained skill is being wastedcord for theke animals to go fish's years' long fast I was rich. authropologist
that all the skeletons of upper of the mammoth remains,"
He-nid that to his knowledge paleolithle man known from in Continental D.P. camps, and without food. Other smalls have fully persuaded that this must staff of the American Museum
Asia and Africa al- there is certainly no doubt of the been known to five years be the world's record holder for of Natural History, went along it was the first time a geo-Europe,
that with other scientists that the physic device had been used in ready show "the features charry vast misery to be found there, without eating.
fasting, Then I learned
acteristic of recent mankind." and
much Slowly.
ticks could go without food for Tepexpan man probably lived at the search for early man. agninst
Fasting Fish
and the end of the pleistocene age, Dr. do Terra dug up a great The Tepexpan man, according ignorant opposition, the British Well, so
longer period nath for fasting even
part of the skeleton, including to Dr. de Terra, probably wasis crea- or incial period. Government has been brought snails. Now for a fasting fah thought that these lowly
tures must hold the, record. Buti That would be 10,000, per- kneecaps, collar bones, wrista, killed by accident. The body
finger bones and
up to the cheat, face-down- The Tepexpun man was covered by Dr. Helmut de The skeleton is the oldest] ward, he said.
He suggested the possibility. Terra, of New York, after, a ever dug up in North America,
may search of about two years. He and probably the oldest ever that the Tepexpan man Bnally succeeded with the help found in the Western Hemis have been trampled by a hordt of Dr. Hana Lundsberg, Toron-l phero.
of mammoths-United Press.
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whose periods creatures
of And now I want to talk about)
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THE TEPEXPAN MAN
By PAUL F. ELLIS
New York, June 2, Anthropologists had new evid-į more
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After West's 1-Diamond ence tulay that man, as he now South made, when, he could take is known, lived on the North three trump tricks beyond per- North's 2-Clubs and East's pass American continent at least 10,- adventure of a doubt if the op- what should South bid? 000 years ago.
This new evidence is part of to. famous geophysicist,,, who |
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menth to relieve Britain's labour, small stṛcuma
swamps shortage. Even more slowly, the which sometimes dry up under or even a twenty year fast by:
the hot aun. But this does not tick or any other animal wil United States, so generous in support
of refugees outside worry the lungfish. It burrows qualify it for first place
Into the mud and remains the going-without-food stakes. America, is. being-induced t
I tell you why. receive a trickle of the exiles. there until the rains come and
World's Record? But the future of the refugees wash it out again. You see, un
ordinary. "fish,
· Two
American Belontists remains dismal and dim, until like.
G. Steiner and hence ita nume, named such time as nations have fewer breathe air,
Junglah. But suppose
the Albin were looking at the pre- political and economic fears and ute willing to offer a wider raina are delayed, how long can served leaf of a rye seedling in
the lungfish remain in ita muda Government prison without dying of thirst Washington,
sanctuary.
100 Years Ago Today
(From the files of the "China
Mall," June 4, 1847).
It
can
herbarium when they found
and starvation? I don't believe on it several small nematodes. anybody. knowg
the maxinum which are a kind of small
wvorm. These worms were stil eurt answer. "And Blackfriare?" when discovered, they revived. alive because, although dormant
"Done two hours ago!" "And Waterloo?" "Done too!"
But how long had the leaf been And so
this period the interrogator proceeded, the preserved, (for. Duke' answering with similar would show how long the worms abruptness, and not very patient. had been cut off from all fond) ly, till he had been dragged up to for they had not eaten the, Jent? The Quico of Wellington was Putney Bridge, "the learned coun. The leaf had originally been col- from Saturday to Moriday as busy 'cillor ventured one step further. lected with the nematodes as a certain person in the pro. Richmond Bridge?" "Richmond it, in the autumn of 1906, and verb. During the whole of Mon Bridge may go to the devil!" saldit wan examined in June, 1948, day he was in his offlec in the the Duke, unable to bear any that is nearly thirty-nine years Horse Guards, but not in uniform further questioni
later. There had been previous A story is told which is highly
records of other species: characteristic of the illustrious Mr. Duddell, begs to inform the nematodes living for twenty- veteran so exclled by his last community of Hong Kong that chance of milltary action. It te two Farriers, Nag of India, said that wher, at the Privy Coun, have Just come to lith, bringing without food, cil, he was asked, "Has your with them a quality of nails and years without Grace protected London Bridge?" shoes, 'suitable for Hoices in this purely that is the "Dona two hours ago!” was the climate;
fast or is it?
geyen and
ofi
twenty-eight years but thirty-nine food or water, world's record
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