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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1958.

TODAY CONCLUDING A UNIQUE GLIMPSE INTO THE MIND OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST POLITICAL ENIGMA

When

man

a gets

so big-

AND YOU WANT TO STAY IN

POWER... THE ONLY THING TO DO IS TO POUNCE.. THIS is the final chapter in a China Mail analysis of the factors and events that have made the mind of Nikita Krushchev an object of, fascinating interest in any assessment of internationa! affairs.

It is very often an underrated mind--proved by this account of his biggest power duel.

ARSHAL GEORGI

MAR

ZHUKOV was

Drunk with the sence of power his new position gave drunk. Yes, on that him as the first career oficer leadership of the sunny, smiling morning to combine

army with all the influence of of the Presidium. of July 14 last year, membership Zhukov, the soldier who the super-Cabinet of the Soviet

Union,

Mistake

he

"Not only those who, like

came Talenkay,.

here under

of

Of

orders from Stalin to drown in blood your glorious organisation of Lenin's party. No, all those must be punished who approved this ghostly crine Stalin's."

Krushchev was at his desk in the Central Committee office had done more than

when the report of Zhukov's speech was laid in front of him. anyone else in the Soviet

He read it and re-read it. But Union to assure the

whichever way he considered 1, ✡ challenge. drunk the speech was Wis triumph of Krushchev PECAUSE

bad been It would have with exhilaration, he made. over the old gang & his terrible mistake.

enough if Zhukov had expressly fortnight before, was

excepted Krusnchev, pointed out that he WAS In the Ukraine į drunk.

when Stalin gave the orders for But he the Leningrad purge. had not done even inni.

Friends of mine, who met few days before. Krushchev at diplomatic cock- promised that the tall parties in Moscow at this that had just brought him when he

villains responsible for the to Leningrad from Moscow. Leningrad terror of 1949 should time, tell me that he looked a He was drunk from the ne- be hunted

punished. clamation of the crowd, the But in Zhukov's version, there

was an unfortunate difference. intoxicating enthusinsm

which with

the vast, "We

all who must punish ecstatic crowd was wel were responsible for these vile atrocities" roared the marshal, coming him the most popu- the medals clinking on his chest lar USSR hero.

As he stood there with the crowd swirling around

him Zhukov made them a speech.

Drunk, not so much from Much the 8ume speech as the vodka they had been Krushchev himself had made in giving him on the train Leningrad a

out and

as he dung out his arms.

ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY-by CEDRIC CARNE

ARE YOUR RED CELLS

DOING THEIR JOB?

LOOKED down the microscope and knew at once

I took up down the microscope. I knew too that

tens of thousands of people had the same condition as she but were unaware of it.

Mre Fisher was surprised when I told her that various patients I'd seen during the last month had all needed tron tablets and that all had bene- fited,

MIRS A had come to see me because she had last ber ap- pelile.

L

strained and worried man-noi boisterous, by any means the carefree man they had known in

The past.

And no wonder. For be bad decided that he must rid him- self of Zhukov, and

that was

going to be a much more diffi- cult thing to do than getting rld of Malenkov er Molotov and their hangers-on.

Zhukov and Krushchev had been friends and allies since the Lists of bilingrad,

Krushchev had intervened time and me again on Zhukov's behalf with Stalin, And it was Zhukov who, after Sulla's death, had helped Krushchev eliminato first Berla, then Malenkov, and had, by his help in the Central Coinmittee, con- Vi bus most recent triumpa. Zhukov had put the army Wour! beniza Krushonav. Krusnchev put the army against himself

he cluminated Zhukov? Two factors gave

could that he him confidence

tno dificult

sately perform

operationa

ONE. The Com:aunist Party had never allowed the army to become a political unii. It was

with nadied

factions, all Intriguing against each other,

TWO. MOST important and significant the marshals bad supported Krushchev against Mülenkov. because Krushchev in Cabinet meetings had backed their demand that the Red could tell by the Techni- Army must be

A capable of colour picture under the micronuclear surprise attick on the didn't West scope that Mrs Fisher

Krishchev had given MR E suffered from headaches, have that form of anaemia. And Mrs Fisher? She com-

But even if she had she needn't priority to heavy industry and have worried.

MRS felt unaccountably

tired.

DIRS

O had difficulty In

I

swallowing.

MR D had palpitations.

plained of breathlessness.

Good colour

1

Thirty years ago pernicious aatemia was pernicious, Doctors didn't have a clue how to treat

Though they had different It. They stood at the bedside symptoms all had the same listening helplessly to the Uck complaint-too Bitle haemoglo of the clock as their patients bin in the blood, not enough became jaundiced and more ill. red cells. It Is surprising how eturunonly chronic ill health, especially in middle aged women, is due to n simple anaemia,

"Haemoglobin,"

Tiresome diet

Now things

tho

of development

nuclear weapons of long-range misaties, and what the Soviet technicians call "guidance systems."

And then rocket men tell him

they are ready to send up the

at Sputnik

Krushchev is delighted. The Sputnik will put up a cloud of glory and national exaltation, he calculates, under whose cover he con remove the dangerous Zhukov.

different, Thanks to effective therapy, ad- la visit to Tito.

I explained, vanced cases are seldom seen.

the

"I the red material

He sends Marabad Zhukov on

On October 4 the marshal travels to Sevastopol and goes

*

"At first pallents' had to eat on board the Soviet cruiser blood. It carries the oxygen you half a pound or more of liver Kuibyshov, surrounded by as breathe.

Because you haven't

"A rather muchi pomp and magsilcence as enough of this haemoglobin you dally," I told her. become-breathless. You need tiresome diet even if you're not if he were the Czar of All the

a vegetarian. But later, liver Russian himself. extracts which could be injected

iron to help the body to manu- Inclure it.'

"But I have a good colour," the stuttered. "I don't look annemic."

at monthly laervals were annu- These were 60 times faclured.

as effective as Uver taken every day by mouth."

Then, in 1943, vitamin B12,

People don't have to look pale which has a similar effect to and interesting to be anaemle, Hver extract, was discovered. Indeed, you can be as red-faced

Disclosure

"RUSHCHEV rubs his hands

K tu gloo. The trip is a new

variation on his old "dine-anit- down-them" tectmique.

"What are the symptoms of And sure enough, furdly has

as a beetroot and still not have peralelous anacmint" Mrs the marshal put out to soa. than

enough haemoglobin circulating Fisher asked.

in the blood steam,

"Whoosh!" Up goes Sputnik" The common symptoms aro No L

"Of course," I said, "anal redness, shortness of breath, meots

those of anaemia in general: On October 21 Krushchev

is not always the result of

faulty diet. There may be de- palpitations

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but depriving him of control of form, The strain of the last the army. "Zhukov will have weeks has gone, Ha is his old, none of it. 'So long did the genial, wisecracking self again, discussion go on that Krushchov, "The international Lension Bulganin, and Mikoyan, who has greatly lessened," he grins. were duo ai party of the "I am convinced war can be Persian Embassy had to rend avolded. Our relations with messages twice postponing Turkey have greatly improved "

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Followed a murt announce- menl late that night that Zhukov had been replaced as Defence Minister by his old rival Marshal Malinovsky.

the

The scare had done is toti. Κοιν it could be called off. Two days later, Sputnik num- ber two, carrying the little dog Laika, goes up into space.

Nikita Krushchev's cup of happiness is full,

Compromise was now out of

The question. Elther Zhukov, the wartime here, would have to go, or Krushchev, the hero of the Sputnik.

The outcome was a foregone conclusion. While the navy and army newspapers eminously attacked "awaggering military

British-trained

centre forward of the 1919 lughorovka football team has kicked himself another goal.

The truth

leaders," the Central Committee, TS there any limit now to the

with its Krushchev "Yes-mon,"

went into session.

It duly gave its verdiet, con- demning Zhukov for "odvcn-

turism.'

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