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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1955;

Can Malenkov Return To Power?

By Walter Kolarz

When Malenkov resigned as Prime Minister in Feb ruary 1955, there were many git omy forecasts as to his future fate. The letter of resignation which he wrote that remarkable document of self-accusation, seemed to indicate that his days as a political figure were number. ed.

His appointment as Minis- ter of Electric Power Sta- tions appeared to be a step- ping-stone to his final dis.

demotion grace, for

When Malenkov fell from power in February 1955, his position was perhaps not so shaky as it appeared at the time, If his opponents etul want to siminate him, writes Kolarz, this tagk may now be even more dificult, Malenkov holds two political "noes" He is the representaliye of the managerial cises, and be is a comparatively young man. So the may well be In an *xcellent

во Position tinue

одни

The fact that it was made at all proved that Malenkov, had scored a point over his ponent Shepilov, the editor of Pravda. It was Skepiloy who opened tho in January 1850, offensive against the СП

consumer

couragement of the goods industry, which Malen- koy was the first to proclaim ini August 1953.

Soen retrospectively, it was not in the best Interests of the con- Khrushchey-Bulganin

group to the struggle for power, have reproached Malenkov for having neglected Heavy industry whlksi favouring Light

Indus This assertion

may have tivists,

own credited him in the eyes of Miub-fry and in Moscow dis certain Bolshevik diehards, but by to:

Ccm-

It was bound to enhance hir stages is an old Cominunial munket Pariy

among

the common practice. Prople like Takha-

Although no longer concern. popularity

diplomacy, he people. Yagora, with Soviet

reprotedly in touch

chevsky. Hy korv

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brunches

buy ben

the

Kamenev, Yezhoy and others with distinguished foreigners of viding the Soviet Union. Early

jobs

HA AFT

More difficult

lightly Or

were all given

September 1955, he had ù secondary importance after

conversation with Em- they had fallen from power loog

wrongly he op- Mayolle, the head of and before they were liquid-

delegation of the French part as the main advocate of

improvement ANI

in the Soviel ated politically and physi. Ermemle Counell, and a month

laer he received the left-wing pokesman of

standard of living und cully.

Balian Socialist leader,

polley chain- Pietro

pioning the interests of the consumer. On P number of occasions, crowds of Muscovites have

Klin -spontaneous ovations

Main speaker

Soviet

on

Malenkov's Ministry Eletrie Power Stallons was ut- tacked only once, namely June 11. when Pravda asserted that If had humpered the con-

lution of grain stores Kazakhstan and Siberia, The next day the central organ

Soviet Communis was forced to print an

arterily

1-Sto

chevezoji- Mul key's egnation as 2010 he that the analogtes fa

apply to the-

Malert.com

has been abt to maintain honourable Litton m

Si les

Sovper

Party Ав

member of the Presulfam he has a tat platheal at! Nel

On

Kiven

If his opponents still want to ciminate him, this task will now be u much more dimcult one 2 Chun it might have been in Party

February 1955. Even then, "COSTEC-

It suld that the "Ministry Malenkov's position was perhaps Stations tot so shaky as it appeared at

It the time.

Tin

"

WHIN

Electrical Power

mlakenly

have

nanied

- Ministry read should for the Construction of Elec- faction trical Power Stations"

Such

Kiwushchev - Bulganin was tron enough to Oust him from the direction of "correction" is not the government and to reduce

st speaker at me Ungs of Party frequently published in Pravda. The influence

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hi evignalson from the Premier - slip he was still able to chozare for himself his

feld of new activity

inust

In the steund Aut of his Premiership he once said that electrification

devo loped "ut a rate and on a scale" enabling Soviet electric power capacities to keep ahead of all other branches of the national Economy So Melenkov de- clared himself a passionate advocate of electrification, which in his view must play a van-

in Soviet Fund vie

economie

Tite.

At

Further assets

perhaps

the

Cummings

"THE MEANING OF CO-EXISTENCE? WHY, THIS SAUSAGE

IS ABOUT TO CO-EXIST WITH ME PERFECTLY

London Express Bervice

* DON IDDON'S

***The Eskimos were dying of a mysterious.

disease.

Dr.

off his Christum Moody "broke

their aid, and

leave to go to

that the White

Man had given the Eskimos palio

A

HE PUT

50,000

SQUARE MILES

IN QUARANTINE

By HAROLD M. HARRIS

Moody, Dr Joseph P. N Eskimo called Tutu

trekked south by dog- medical officer to 2,000 aleigh from Eskimo Eskimos and a handful of Point, on Hudson's Bay, to Europeans in an area cover- the little town of Churchill, ing 8,000 frozen 200 miles away, to sell some miles, wae Ivory carvings.

- square recalled from Christmas leave to his Arctic Eskimo Point is a hand- base at Chesterfield to deal ful of huts and Churchill is with the epidemic. not much more. Its chief Patients lay on the floor importance is that it lies at and on the steps of the little the end of a 600-mile railway hospital, huddled in their Hino from Canada.

caribou skins. In a com- Tutu did well enough in munity of 200 Eskimos and Churchill and made his 20 whites, about 90 people leisurely way

to were alck. Some died. Some Eskimo Point. He stopped of the patients who recover- from time to time on the ed were paralysed.

Suddenly Dr Moody under- little banda of way with Eskimos in the way of this stood the impossible truth. nomadic people.

back

Tho

sparsely - populated Arctic had been struck in ARCTIC BASE

mid-winter (with the tem. No one at first connected

perature averaging 88 de- Tutu with a strange disease

below zero) by an which broke out in the vast epidemic normally associated Arctic regions in the whrter with cities in summer. It of 1948-49. No one at frst could even diagnose it.

DIARY

VEGAS, YOUR SHOW

IS

SLIPPING

girls are pooled to

Las Vegas, Tuesday, don't print my name, "I think whatever we do we the harem ERE in Vegas (never because I'd be run out of say Las Vegas, un- town and maybe you would less you want to be be too." I promised not to maybe a few abandoned bulld- of money on the line.

new print his name.

H

considered

leading

here.

grees

was polio in a particularly virulent form. It killed many Eskimos within six hours.

Here was a new terror brought by civilisation to the dwindling native race of the frozen North. Already 10 percent of the entire pow pulation

victims of tuberculosis, a disease un known to the Eskimos until the white man came.

were

ADVENTURES

Dr Moody, who has written a book* about his adventures, describes how he drew a line on the map enclosing all the known

CASES

of polio. It cut off an area of 50,000 square miles,

He put this whole stretch of territory in quarantine the biggest quarantine in the history

medical science. The disctise did not spread outside, the area, When the epidemic ended, more than 15 people had died Chestergeld alone, and 40 were left with paralysis.

in Little

change

д.ме licked Ten YLUTS from mear-nakedness, but the gamblers now there'll be desert again and are not inying the same amount ings. This will be Ghost Town No. 1, not Playtown No. 1. rate (93)

This Ministry, which might also deal in future boy) there is a fear that

"Another thing the Govern- with the development of atomic America's leading playtown

The operator said: "I've

In, and you energy, is an excellent position

been in gambling and ment is moving

can't buck Uncle Sam from which to

the become America's continue

show business all my life

ON the surface Vezea has not struggle for power.

ghost town.

"You know what happens changed

much. I arrived and I know what I'm talk- Apart from hav

having acquired,

The operators and owners ing about. This town is over- the takings are counted

Every night or morning very tired after a 2,800-mile said: All flight. The taxi-driver undeservedly. survole of the Cauners if the dazzling Strip, where extended. It has been trying that lovely money is piled high "Get Reno licked, hasn't it?" Fremler," Malenkov has twe the gaming houses, hotels, further assets He is the

remotels are concentrated, are presentative of

the managerial worried. class.

Khrushchev which the Bulganin group

cannot ignore, even though it has restored the overlordship at the Party

auctals over the

managerial ume, At the same technocrats.

Mulenkov Is Л younger than his rivals. He is only 53. whilst Khrushchev, Bulgania and Kaganovich are all over 80, and Molotov

is even over 05. So time work for him arrived I called on one of as long as his opponents have the biggest and most famous not scored more than that re-operators in Vegas. He said; kative victory which they

signation.

THE

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HONG KONG, AND KOwn

may

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Many consider that Vegas, which was nothing in nowhere 16 years ago and today is

neon- auper trimmed Monte Carlo, may be back to nothing in the next few years or less. The second night

story

on one

I

condition-

we offered luxury rooms and food and swimming pools and service at peanut prices.

Biggest names

THE SECURITY

MACHINE

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

the

Anxiety

Only Inter was Dr Moody

pollo

informed that a soldier had been evacuated from Churchill with a few days before. Tutu arrived there with his ivory.

Dr

Into showed Moody

doctor: then.ho does se in author (his book hás

to do so much, and the into box or wastopaper Extrtly the same words I had enterprize as

Dometimes--and one- heard when I first descended incuriating ohinstona and does seams are splitting right baskets

third of the lot is sliced off and into Glitter Gulch,

not contain a single map). From down the back.

stacked away In the private

1 sakk "Not many people at Chesterfield it might take him a "You've read about one remaining two-thirds.

safe.

Taxes are paid on the

the airport," and the driver week to visit a remote patient. salc "It's tho end of the He had to do a great deal of his fancy hotel after another

about

"Uncle Sam is on to it, and season - nourly Thanksgiving. work by radio, them, folding

Once, sweating at the micro- when he moves, well brother, We aim to be back on top again changing hands and going

by next year." it's curtains.

phose, he gave detailed Instruc-- bust? Well, that's just A

tiona to the father of a 35~ I said: "You seem bitter,

I cannot say that the future month-old baby suffering from start.

Haven't you anything good to of Vegas matters much to me. meningitis.. The father,

A town that lives on gambling,

employee of the "Vegna lives on gambling, say about Vegas?"

Crnadian booze, flesh-peddling," divorce The operator said: "Yes, at and ballyhoo would be no great be persuaded to plunge a hypo So to get the gamblers and

02 Hudson's Bay Company, had to therefore the profits, be lost we get all the riff-ruff of less. But this could be a haven. cause the house always wins the country all gathered to-

Dr for North acts on The the natives

Moody

19 If he were the needle achieved with his enforced re- "I'll tell you the real Vegas --it's the law of averages gother right here in one place. The desert air is like good wine dermic in the child's skull.

It will make it easier for Uncle. (hangover-proof

of say), the sun almost shines, the

hno П Now don't print my name."

a compass. It mountain scenery is magnificent, Irresistible: attraction for bim. I think the big operator was and the people are friendly, and After his tour of duty, be re axaggerating. but there's no warmly pro-British.

turned as a geologist. He found usbes os ore, nickel, doubt that Vegas is feeling the Donald Campbell, with whom quartz, chill. I was lost here in the

I've spent a lot of time, and whe cobalt, some gold and many

more minerals. spring to cover the atomic ex has had me out of bed by tour pkelon, and, although I spent

with his GEIGER COUNTER

Hir Geiger counter-the first "WE throw in the biggest most of my time on Media Ho'clock most mornings with

hero. This

This handsome i dashing names of Hollywood, waiting for the blast, 1 toured speed runs, has become a local

to be taken to the East Atelie place pretty thoroughly, Broadway, and England too. from the plushiest

hotels and and diplomatic Englishmen la rattled like a machine-gun.

The exploitation of these This way

we figured we'd casinos on the Strip to the old-called "Sir Don" hare, and one

Intal owner told me seriously: minerals, Dr Moody believes, draw the crowds and the style Weston frontier gaming- "Sir Don should be Ambassador will bring

now prosperity to houses down-town.

to the United States-that's the the Fakimos. But it soome a gamblers.

kind of man we want."

forlorn hope. Eskimos da no! priapt well, to modern ways. I think Campbell is enjoying Their own lives were well suited his stay, though he drived him- to the peculiar conditions In. self too hard and noods more which they live. Now, in spita gamblers to pay our over- THERE was one hoop-la open- help and more sleep. In fact, of

of great efforts being made by in Vegas needs more the Canadian Government, it SPECIAL BRANCH of Scotland Yard, responsible to heads. This place is be- ing efter another (some everyone the Home Secretary, specialises in aliens and political coming a tourists' hang- razzie-dazzle hotels had two or sloeg, but there is a vast con- seems too late to go back.

On100 between 35,000 and three fasliy promieres), and oven spiracy against it." agitators, safeguards royalty.

50.000 Eaklanos roamed the gaudier traps were being

Canadian Arcile. In the 1950 3 SECRET SERVICE or M.I.6-is concerned with "Mister and missus and plated,

census, 9600 were courled," espionage. It reports on new weapons, troop move the kids drive out here, stay Today the la o town of

Bowhead whales and killer ments, and industrial output.

whales, which used to be their in the silk, eat the steaks, anxiety, and the SUPPLY MINISTRY SECURITY covers arms of

swim in the pools at bargain free-whoeling manner of the

fually extinct. They have been exterminated by white hunters. Ordnance type accret research stations, and Royal basement prices, and maybe American West is vanishing. Noise blaring banging car chlet source of food wes virs

Not factories.

VITAL FOOD? ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY operates its own security they spend a couple of Is Vogas on the skids?

dollars on

crap games or campletely, but it has slipped,

and is slipping.

The caribou, vital as a food department with staff at all its establishments.

stuff and for the skin which MILITARY INTELLIGENCE-the Army's made up of roulette or slot machines.

The hotel where I stayed last

makes clothing and tents, s more than a dozen M.I. divisions in the War Ofce. It Then they go home after

hunted by rifle instead of arrow Thousands were depende greatly en information from "open" sources sent in by one of the cheapest holidays time has been taken over by a new group of operators, and military attaches. Then there are

possible in the United that group is already trying musickna. <

hoodlessly slaughtered. Only NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

are now left States,

to get Vegas's only skyscraper

The silver and sagebrush about_650,000

put z Arotic 2. Bluto

(makde.

the Eastern Intellectual 2000.000 at the furn

of 1 the "It makes them feel good, off its hands

And pisima. I Libe the spring

see,, despite but it makes me and other Mone

The

of Klaughter cuterate century... DEFENCE 'MINISTRY formerly operated separately,

Dietrich, and Nowl the gambling

Claims The latest

In cerned with selentile knowledge. It has dow been enlarged guys who've sunk fortunes. Coward were getting $40,000 and divorce, it can malce

figured show and incorporated in the

into this place feel bad. $50,000 a wook; and Bob Hope JOINT INTELLIGENCE BUREAU, central agency where "Unless yo change our had been offered $75,000. Now tint Novada, despite Vegna and polle,white men have Information picked up by separate intelligence departments la policy cut out the big you've got to be very good to despite Reno, space almost brought modales. In th

2004 $400,000 more than 1tbook in common cold, dysentery and pooled and tabled

Berk molution?/uMdew/gambling The bureau presents its main findings to the Joint Intelligence entertainers at 840,000 az Naval, Air and miary Intelligence, the head or M.1.5, and the and find a way, to draw the publicity drume harder and and more ramblihe chief of the Secret Bervice.

**: climbed› pretends to balnem V377**SENA The scheldered views of the Joint Intelligence Committee gamblers Again we are on harder Frank Sinatra, who. That's what (Normal) Hellavor of gre given to the Cabinet-by-12a Dadin

SEERDE bur way out

THE British security service consists of nine agencies,

each responsible to a different Minister.

"Well, we drew; and aro M.1.6 reports direct to the Prime Minister. It is still drawing, the crowds, responsible for security at home, deals with counter-but not enough of them are espionage, is staffed by civilians.

out.

Constant noise

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AIR INTELLIGENCE.

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draw $20,000

flamboyant;

splitting noise-rules Vegas, Banda blaro all day and all not unusual for å night--it's hotel to have half a dozoki bends taking turns during the long nights, and usually the bands men are clowns and comedians

or think they are-as well as and spear.

all

and

jow financin

Committeeb top-level group which includes the directors- df} week, raise our room rates The castórímúré, beating the last fiscal year,{"

tok-ox has been evou

addition to tuberculosis

diphtheria to the Am

The harm has done. It le à sombre tale,