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STALIN DIES
THE bella on the guard towers of the Kremlin shrilled. The signal lights flashed green. One by one six lorries of Stalin's secret police roared up the gangway and disappeared through the portals of the Kremlin walls.
That was two months ago.
The few passers-by in Moscow's Red Square took little notice. Police lorrles entering or leaving the Kremlin are a common enough sight.
But these lorries were something special. They contained a com- plote set of special laboratory apparatus, pharmaceutical suppiles and equipment from the
Soviet "Institute for the prolongation of life."
Under special orders from Stalin himself, the institute and its famed woman direc- tor, biologist Olga Lopeshin- akaya, had been, attached to the Kremlin staff. Now they were moving in.
In my view, the move of Professor Lepeshinskaya in-
What is going on
in Russia now?
A struggle for power? Yes. But also a fight
to keep a man alive.
to the Kremlin is one of the by SEFTON DELMER
most significant pieces of news to come out of Russia for a long time.
As important as the long- delayed summoning of the Party Congress and the newly announced changes in the Statutes and leadership organisation of the party.
And as I read these events they are intimately con- nected.
machine.
The test
They are made all the more acutely conscious of this problem by the pre- sonce in Moscow of Mr George Kennan, the U.S. envoy.
In the days when he was chief planner of U.S. cold- war strategy, Kennan made a close study of the Soviet capacity to stand up to the strain of Stalin's removal".
"There has
been,"
he
Cummings
"Well, Comrade Stalin, we hope you'll agree that the Youth-Giving Tonic is a credit to the Soviet Academy of Rejuvenation."
London Express Service
World's Frankest Girl Confesses
LOVE-LORN POLICE CHIEF
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E most vonderful
Z
GAOLED ME
calibre were
"Those vere the happiest duys.
man in ze world. ZSA ZSA GABOR, the frankest girl lacking—but men of the right Like Charles in the world; dances with Ataturk, Boyer-but more refuses a Rolls-Royce, finds herself in of my life," says Zsa Zsa, "but
and flies to New York wearing Hollywood volves
ze trouble I had with those
prince by birth.
They are
Both spring from the obsession which today wrote, "a dangerous. con- haunts the Kremlin leaders: gealment of political life in the death of 72-year-old the higher circles of Soviet Stalin, its consequences for power. Today well over themselves and the Soviet half of the party members cynical-looking." That le gaol.
are persons who have en- Zsa Zsa Gabor's description tered since the last Party of her first husband, Bur- a mink coat and a load of gems. Michael sul volfing everywhere." Congress (in 1939).
ham Belge a Turkish diplo- Ruddy and Peter Earls tell it all in mat in Budapest, and the story it took two men to write! her accent. But, Zsa Zsa be There must be 'a growing divergence in nge, OLGA LEPESHINSKAYA outlook, and Interest be- of tween the great mass of biologists are using all the party members... and the resources of Soviet science little self-perpetuating cli to prolong Stalin's life. The que of men at the top. Kremlin's political paladins
"If disunity were ever to are overhauling the party seize and paralyse the party structure to strengthen it to the chaos and weakness of survive the removal of the
Russian society would be kingpin.
revealed in forms beyond description."
and her staff
For some time reports have been trickling through of Professor Olga's experi- ments which, coming from any other realm than the Soviet Union, would be dis- missed as fantastic.
age as
The policy
In these days too, most things she said were funny because of
Came wise as to what got a Mr Belge was influential, and wind was blowing in London vat happens? Police come and laugh. She met many stars, film
And that polled, tors-and financiers.
czars, executives, writers, direc- being groomed for a key Turkish that fateful year. The bell was lock me up. diplomatic post. "His qualities tolling for the gay. whirling chief He vas behind all the had not escaped me ver I pro- life the know with Mr. Belge trouble. He vas so madly in love
the Diplomat. Zsa Zsa, think with me. He used to ring me up did not, and still doesn't do, is But one of the things Zsa Za pose to him,"
Bay Zsu
Zsa Her Turk took her to Turkey ing of new worlds to conquer, every morning and evening
drink. "Drinking is the worst date. Ho and risked his diplomatic career. focused her eyes on the New asking for
thing girl can do," she says, offered me a Rolls-Royce. For foreign marriages were not World across the Atlantic, permitted
But it makes her ugly. I take only in the diplomatic
don't fancy being taken for a "I vas á leetle girl playing ride by him, so finally be lock A sherry'or' a' mnall glass of corps. The Turks didn't like
diplomais foreigners not even beutiful ones. They believed in playing safe against possible spies,
their
.to
marry
Istanbul and Ankara were wide-open cities-if you knew the
Ува right people..
Zoo, through her marriage, did.
"I learn that in Turkey you have to complain all the time
life and I had to complain!""
In
avan
explaing with dolls," Zsa Zsa
mo up to make sure I dbt Wing." now,"
yawned at parties leave too soon. and I fell asleep. So I decide *** to leave that man. I voS 600
older but kind,
Nevertheless, llie's never "Some nice Engilsh air force quiet with Zsa Zsa around, Sho young, and he vos soo much officers come to see me in gael became involved in a few law and say I'm all right. I ask how suits-but nothing which really this get me out of prison, I tell cramped her style, them. I'm just a poor lectie girl trying to get to America,
ARRESTED
"He vos a nice husband, but
and
"Finally, they act like people
WELL, the Kremlin ap- pears to be taking the
men act ven a girl is cornered. first step to deal with the if you want to be popular with 500 jealoust. If I smile at a alvays tell me English gentle- Sixty Georgian peasants gituation.
ze vomen," says Zsa Zsa, "other. policeman, he is furious, wise they think you are doing how can I not ever smile? Im- and she don't vant to stay this of approximately the same The Party Congress has too vell. I was sixteen, mar- possible! That is probably why I vay-they let me go,
Stalin, the same been summoned for the led to a distinguished man, left him, and anyway I was too
In "But 'vat håppen? I get put blood group and general first time since 1989.-The just starting a vonderful, now young and more interested
horses and dogs than in ze books in a plane and that police physical frame have been leaders show themselves to
he gave me to read. He treated chief ecme and drag me off It rounded up as guinea pigs, the rank and file.
a child. Ive had a and put me back in gaol. me like Zsa Zsa Icarned Turkish
dinner party he would say: "You They are being used to test
threo months. But there was Politburo, Stalin's out drugs and processes inner Cabinet, and its as- neighbours question.
still the Turkish-Hungarian bad now to bed, Uttle one." Imagine
zal!" which, if successful, are sociate
committee, the then to be applied to Stalin. Orgburo, are to disappear. Instead there will be created a "Presidium," a new ruling committee to embrace the functions of both.
The problem
The
elements."
in
A DARLING
•
She retumed to Budapest, and began to race against World War 11. Kind Mr Beige obligingly a ranged for a Gwdas divorce. Arm- ed with diamonds and ten trunks of wardrobe, Zsa Zsa headed Americawards.
"I got first to Yugoslavia, In Belgrade zey come to me and ask me to be a spy. Can you imagine me as a spy, darling? But I turn them down and I go to Iraq.
+
And
'I PROPOSED'
Warner's offered her a screen Conrad Hütör contract. "But offered me another kind of con- tract marringe one. I like Hilton's contract better m I forget about movies" And who was' Hilton? The one and only Conrad Hilton-mighty In size' and fortune-hotel owner and £100,000,000; financier estimated to be worth
"So I get mad, I send a mess age to a man I know who is a diplomat. He sees I get out once, and for all.
"My friends say-joost mea But that police chief! Him I shoot von day if I tion marriage toʻzia man and get the chancef
you vill never see him again, But I like him. He's beeg and grey-haired and danco vell. So. one night at a party with all theenk I vill marry you. his friends I
By: Conris, 1
"And
you know, he says right back: 'Zsa Zso, vy don't you go right ahead and do that?" Sho did. Meantime, Eva divorced
ried a scion of a wealthy Los Angelce family with real estate, Zsa Zsa and the Statue of of wells, and two yachts thrown Liberty met in June, 1041. "Vo in. liked ze look of each ozer from the start."
THOSE ORCHIDS her Hollywood doctor and mar
Trunks
"I travel
mostly in luxury. "I fix that," says Zsa Zsa,
Money I don't vorry about. just sell a illamond necklace She did, with the Turkish Fre
slone here, a atone there, There are pointers which rident himself the tough. FOR the politicians the
"But it ees so difficult to men everywhere are very help ruthless father of modern different. Buggest that a policy of us problem is
travel van ze Germans are stuck fui. Zey are nice Turkey
Kemal -Mustapha
and get mo Their problem is to ensure rejuvenation is intended- Ataturk. When Ataturk threw in ze way. Oh! those Germans... seats on trains and planes that when Stalin
party, it was a party. All does die and a policy of terror to dis-
would drink, transfer of power to
"undisciplined night Ataturk hig suade any
play cards, or dance, according successor or
to how he felt. - successors For rejuvenation speaks the takes place smoothly and fact that the report of the "Ven he see
me," says Zan without a civil disruption Central. Committee to the Con- Zea, "he thought he would which the West could ex- gress, which in 1930- was de-
"And vat do you know? In donce,"
Baghdad zey arrest me as a spy livered by Stalin himself, will
Looking back on her marriage ploit.
not be delivered by 02-year-old
to Hilton now, Zsa Zsa says: Then someone told him who Joost because I'm a Hungarian travelling on Д Turkish dip- Molotov, "officially" next
intact, Zsa Zsa was,
and with "Zis vas when I really tearned a lomalle passport who speaks nearly all her diamonds ("I'm about America. Ven I married succession, but by 50-year-old Malenkov.
German with a French accent, an orderly, careful girl") she Commie I didn't even know vere. At least, that's yat they tell me.: styed just long enough in New Texas vas, or vat a deal was,
York to make a shattering entry But I learn! "Everything was hectle in in the swanky 21 Club for lunch. Baghdad in those days. The She wore a mink and "joost a Europeans vere confined to one fow" of her bracelets and neck- or two big hotels. There vas an inces. Just enough to knock RAF. officer there who used to everybody's eyes out, and just got so tight on his off-duty long enough for Society to note times that ve could stick leetle her arrival and her now classic man but he could nus circles pins in him and he never felt it. phrase. "A girl, even a giri viz round younger men. He re Ist London' be come to see me background, can put up with a minded me of my vonderful "He vos the most sophisticated recently, and ask if I remember tot of things if she has the right father. He looked like him, and man in ze world and 50 him. How could I forget!
had a buoyant temperament, handsome. They found by poll that 95 percent of the
young Unt I was actually too Turkish women thought he vas
She joined sister Eva, already old for him! Most men established in vonderful. George Sanders, my
Hollywood. boys. They do not grow up so Nolther was as yet really or fast as veinen. Vo can't make latest husband, is exactly the same
Then I vas in a Jam, Zey manised. They lived in a Bungos 1o good planes, or direct banks......... type as Ataturk, so at-
more but ve are mothers by instinct, tractive, slightly sardonic, and Test me." Za Zsa get out of Boulevard bungalow at Many heads are likely to roll, the same colouring. Ataturk that one by quoting Henry VIII, 85 dollars a month rent. Their
Anthony Edca would have been a'sensation in shaw as. references! They were calloskeleton."
and Bernard' car was an old one which they Hollywood."
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In fact Molotov is not men- tioned in the announcements at all. Nor la there any referenco to Stalin's committee which in 1999 was entrusted with the task of working out a new pro- gramme for the party.
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Burham Ataturk scowled Belge
trembled. Zsa Zsa Brailed, Ataturk softened - and had the next dance with her. And tho next. "Zen," Zsz Zra laughs, "bo
slog za music and he make a speech saying that Hungarians and Turks must all be friends to gether. He vos a darling.
JEALOUS
1
After that party, Mr Belgo became the Director of the
“I GET MAD'.
accepted.
attitude to life.""
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Both girls had hearty appel Ites but they ate out mostly.
KIT
LIKE FATHER
"Connio vas a much
older
"Es two sons vero almont_my recruits will be new
ago. To think,” says Zm Zsa. leaving for the labour camps of
widening her eyes, "that. If ́ ́mý Central Asia. Many posts will
marriage to him instod a bit be freed for younger
"A girl mould always remem Communists
longer, I_vould... bavo boen with the right amount of push.
ber that gentlemen friends...
Elizabeth Taylor's · mother-in- I fancy the next few months
past, present, real or imaginary That's why, when in the Hotel law ven she marry Nicky. In Moscow are going to provide
con come in handy.
Plaza. some newspaper the observant and thoughtful
went to the lee-box. In search of "Those boys ver vild, Real George Kennan with a fascinat-
"But ven I get to Bam zoy Ing spectacle, But not
only Press and Zsa Zsa sat top table arrest me again and zis time I. aack and drink, wey round Texans. They used to shoot the Kennan-all the world will be at all the great diplomatie din find myself in gool, which is all piece of salamland vases out from under the flowers
17 archid.
I arranged at home." watching to see who will be
ners.
Her diamond collection definitely no place for a lady increased. Crowned heads and They gaol me na a spy. And
"Tadore orchids," says Zsa But Zsa Zsa was about to do the great smiled on her. ....
that," she storms, “yos the fault Za, "but I don't İke carrying a bit of "shooting"" hernelf
The mi vith them." of your FLAF,
with staggering success "I even made Bernard Shaw the big curly, moustaches,
shooting to a new kind of famet Laugh. Ven I come to London
more successful in dealing with Russia's problem: the Old Guard of the Politburo with their purge and pretended reorganisa tion. Or Professer Olga and her guinea-pig».'
-London Thepress Service.
"American Diplomacy," Secker
and Warbury, 1982.
For Zo Zen theso mirly days in 1930, they close Victoria "Everywhere in Basra is were looked on as a period of TOMORROW: A gangster Stations Vo vere all very im- beeg security poster saying do reconnalamance, She made plu- breaks Into. Zsa Zsa's bed- portant. I vas an Excellency!" not talk to strange vomen. A prick stacks on the night our room in her New York tuning
But Zan Zan and her cute in the ploture the woman she dressed ; to fit her. · loka.....
flat. sensed which way the hu red hals-just 'like mine. Bo gorgeouilly,
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