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Indications have now been received that the "quiet purge" of the followers of the late Andrei A. Zhdanov, which has been going on in the` Soviet Union during the past year, is now over,
NEW YORK Some of the most prominent individuals removed
lesser
from their positions during the course of this political upheaval are slowly beginning to New York, December 11. Sír Laurence Olivier said reappear in public life although on today that he is not interest- level than that they previously occupied. ed in working on television and thinks the new medium These things are difficult to will never threaten the legi-analyse in detail and one can thmate stage.
only deduce basic trends by correlating such isolated facts **Thero will always be an as slip out from under the audience which prefers a profes-Iron Curtain. sional performance on the live stage," he zadet.
Another man who had
been clase in the eldør Zhdanov and had been domotert Is M. A. Suslov. who in July, 1940) was removed as the head of the Bolshevist party's paltation and' propaganda rection.
M. Suslov apparently has been nated editor of "Pravda" to re-
1 Rome. Praember 11. A Communist and an anti- Communkt fought a moo7- tight duet in the town plax
of Cosigtiano d'Otranto to settle their political dir onces, newspaper reports onld today,
Both suffered light sword wounds.Autoplated Press.
RED ARMY GOES ON THE LAND
Tokyo, December 12. The quiet purgo" itself was.
Some Communist forces in never mouneed or even hinted Sie Laurence hoarded Pant in Moscow. Only those fumi-place P. N. Pospelov, who in turn North China are farming dur- American place at International that with party filerarchy ar ber has succeeded V. 6. Kruzhkoving hours outside parrison airport Tortay for London. Besonally acquainted with the n-as head of the Marx-Engels-Ledin
of its Institute. That Mr. Suslov should duty, a Peking broadcast was in the Gilled States for only | divifunts affected knew two days, having arrived on Fri- ¦ existence.
receive such an important positions monitored here asserted. day to participate in the first in- It generally believed that -although still lower than that niversary
the this moment basically represent-
ha once held indicates he is on A determination by George his way back.
Maleτiκον,
Almont previously Mir.
simultaneously 2001T7 Zhdanov's rival in the Pour enemies of the cider Zhdanov who and a personal enemy, to remove
were projected to prominence by from power
the late Bolshevist the Malenkov faction during the lender's friends.
cricbation United Nations adopta uf the human rights declarathn.
He was present during as night's Carrigle Hall olse; vanee, which was tolovised, 1 last ara before bom đăng his plane was to purchase a dozen pases of nylons for his wife, Vivien Leigh rd Press.
agency,
London, December 11.
ed M.
period of the "gulei purge" svém to be slipping. G. F. Aleksan- drov, who
The decision to engage in agri- culture production fallowed' a directive from Chairman Mao Tse-tung urging the Communist Army "to participate in produc- tion to help the Central People's Kovernment in healing the scars of war and increasing constrúe- WIL consured 10tion," the broadcost said. years ago by Mr. Zhdanov and who had been steadily increasing It added that troops for the past his importance sipee the latter's few months have been working on death, was dropped from the edl- the land and engaging in "Varidus occupations" during torial board of the Bolshevik this productive
duty sh summer and now is being crilles-intervals of garrison
hard training.
For the most part these were members of the so-called "Lenin- grod enbal," a group of Commu- lata who had workesi with Mr. Zhdanov when he had been burn A Tass, Soviet Meal news of that city.
received here i spessuke
These Included Nikolai A. Yaz- today claired that a Huss, nesensky. former Politburo nen- Peter Kayaginsity. torented theber: A. A. Kuznetsov, a Centraled by name.
irst automatic linotype machine Cummitice sveretury; P. S. Pophov,
1867 Keuler.
member of the Prestur of the Supreme Soviet, and Yuri A. Zhdanov, son of the late party husa.
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Other were 1. T. Gulyakov, once eblet of the Supreme Court: Col. Gen. 1. V. Shikiu, political administrator of armed forces, and M. I. Rodinov, former chatonian of the Cornell of Ministers of the Russian Federateri Soviet Socialist Republic.
For the rst time since Mr. Malenkov's purge movement be- gan, confirmed information has been received that two of the aforementioned list—who com- prised the most important mam. bera of the Zhdanov olique—are now again active in party life although in a lower echelon. Mr. Shikin has been appointed a director of the Lenin Political
His as yet impossible to fit gil these pieces together logical pattern.
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However, the reappearance young Zhdanov and of Mr. Shi- kin would seem to imply that the political disgrace of this
group Waa hot decompanied by death be prison.
One line of speculation~which in no sense can be proved is that Prepler Stalin, having employed Mr. Malenkov to reduce the power of one Soviet political clique, now trimming the sails of Malenkov's own faction,
Mr.
More time will have to pass before that can be evaluated as an idea.
Stalin Technique
However, h must always bo re- called that Mr. Stálin's method of
"For example," the Communist radio sald, "one unit of the Arthy group has tended 90 acres of crop anc vegetable and. One bat- talion alone harvested more than 200,000 pounds of vegetables which keep the whole battalion supplied with enough vegetables for two mi
"Men in this unit,” the broad- cast continued," also raised 1,100 hogs besides sollecting' some 350 tons of rewood and fodder for the kitchens and niables of the
Army. They also operated several flour mills and all presses."
The broadenst said, the oxtra cash thus obtained brought marked Improvement to the living standard of the fighting men." Associated Press.
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Academy in Moscow. This is un-operating has been to tina His to restore more of a balance is the doubtedly very important job, rivals or his most Important licu-political forces striving within the (although by no means comparable tenants to destroy each other, monolithic party siructure.
to that of political bosa of the This was true after Lenin's death.
further- It must be recalled Soviet armed forces in charge of
more that one It was true during the great
aspect their indoctrination, Mr. Shikla purge trials, when Mr. Stalin's scat oriental form of political opera-' had been Mr. Zhdanoy's deputy in the saddto was certainly fem
tion within the machinery of dic- commander during the siege of It may be true, now that Mr. Latorship has been the process of Leningrad a World War II and Stalin does not want Mr. Malen- purging the purgers. This was was closely associated with him. kay to get too far ahead in the true In the Nineteen Thirities race for the eventful succession. when, for example, one man suc- Even though Mr. Malenkov ap-ceeded another as the head of the pears to remain the most power-secret police, liquidating his pre- ful Soviet citizen after the Pro- decessor, until finally Lavrenti P. mier, It may be the latter is eager Beria "made good."
Two Newsmon Young Yurt A. Zhdanov is now articles again writing occasional Lor the Russian scientifle press, A recent article by him in Culture and Life on genètiEs shows he has worked his way back to favour by starting to praise Trofim Dy Ly- Benko's views on genes and the dominance of environment heredity. This concept was de- veloped during the last eighteen months in the Soviet Union; and was supported by the Politburo,
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