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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1958.
Serov
OWN, down, down they
DOWN, all Krushchev's
friends. The Georgis, the Nikolais, the Vyacheslavs, all the old chums.
And I looked like the be- ginning of the long road to old obscurity for another friend of the Russian Jender.
of
Not one
his nicest pals. But to all appearances, until now, one of his closest ones.
An Ivan this time. Ivan Aleksandrovich Serv. security chief of all the Kussias, ruthless, feared, and very able.
They called him ivan the Terrible.
Small, -nosed, smiling,
went on
By STEPHEN CONSTANT
did
bl
for
his der
Te prospered. He Important Johs John Foders He directed muss relations from the Baltic coun- first Che beginning of the Tek wat
IN
In April 1054 he was appoint- ed Chairman of the Committee for State Security, the post he held un recently.
IN BRITAIN
He was trusted by Krushchev. There can be no doubt of that. 16 was he who fixed all the security Arrangements during B & K's memorable junkela to Britain, India, Burmo, Pakistan and Finland,
Of course the announcement abonit his removal from
the
State Security Just docs not merasurily mean that Scrov is
to be executed. i feel sure that he will be given another Jcb
BON.
Hat it is not very likely that
it will be a better job.
I SUGGEST
Why tas
he knew more of the Krem- The cmn14 his big chance lin's secrets, more about He was printed head of the behind the vallan Stule Security Orga- Jose colluugue
Krushchev dorte Krusheher matten.
dualog the job was none other away with Ivan? 1 suggest there than Nikita Krushchev. who are two reasons:-- was at The U19 also working in the ruine
what Beetles thun himself.
For 28 years he has bad access to all the secret files. knew all the plots, cooked up many of them himself
BEGINNING
-
The bag fordship at friend-
those ww cutes from days After the Vikraine cante aston ut iugurtant Jobs the deportation of the Crimean Piura ordered by Stalin, th deportation of Soviet esized wing in Germany
SEROV 15 not a popular TOT! Russia. A gesture like the sucking of Scroy can co Mr K a lot of good.
He CAST show tha1 he 13 stronger than the secret police, He also wash his hunds of the dark devils of the police.
His career began in 1930 with a post in Stalin's per-
It was during this period Honal
then just after the secretariat,
war-whun directed by another former pay for musi
monstrate calable serviers M the Krem friend of Krushebev Georgi Malenkov.
While working his gra dual way to the top he had many opportunities to see the usual fate of a Soviet Secret Police boss
He saw all his predvers- sors the terrible Yagoda,
[10
his of
mt
Ha braight home to Hussha yol antch Germany's Iaching
rockel
westponin trials an ani afeunte physics.
list tu
Thai Russian Sputnik owes a
Ivan Aleksandrovich,
He became deputy chief u! the dreaded SMERSH organisas The word is an abbrevia-
Manzhinsky, Dzerzhinsky, ton of the phrase "Death 10 and finally Beria-go lo a Sales. They were the people violent death.
who are giving such trouble to Hat amiable young man Janeh 15111 Ivan Aleksandrovich Hond whose adventures never drew the necessary moral. printed sometime go.
I Krushchev replaces Serov mun- real Com- by a party
Can munist-he
clcurly des- whal
been he has presetting for the lust five years; that the party is stronger than any other body in Russia.
"Cummings"
NOW
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SEROV
Molotov: Ambassador- Extraordinary & Pleni- potentiary to Outer.
Mongolia
Zhukov: Sentry Particular to the deadly
N.C.O's canteen.
Majenkov Electrician-issimo
"Look, Mikoyan, ray most inspired appointment yet!"
THEY CALL
IT
"PRESLEY TOWN"
NOTHING
SQ
exciting has happened in this sleepy little German town of Friedberg since the first American G. I. usefulness to the Hussin nosed his way into it in a jeep bristling with machine-gun
SEROV has outlived his
Trader. The socking proves that the party has now got the
Secret Police ander its
as well as the Army.
thumb
nearly fourteen years ago.
Today Friedberg has been renamed Presleytown, and the most famous G.1. of them all is "out of town" till Christmas. He's away on Now Krishcher is still the field exercises--the only place he is not surrounded by thousands of
by a long neck Behind him
the Teaves 11 long string of shouting, jiving German teenagers who pack the streets around his hotel,
enemies.
sneak up to his bedroom, and even hide in the bathroom to write him Marlong fan letters in German, which Elvis can't understand anyway.
We
of these Serov-the with all the Secrets--is potent!- ally the must dangerous.
The Most
Welcome
mannilade Shem
GIRARD
HAIG'S
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COLD LABEL
Jenn Has a Cair
Elvis first became the German Įteenagers' Idol over a year ago.
Since then sales of his records have rocketed. Today he sells over a million discs ST West Germany alone every year, and top favourite of the moment is Hard Headed Woman." In the local Rock 'n' Roll cafes around There
whery
the
pony-tailed
Elvis on the juke box.
By
ANTONY TERRY
80
have
a
It'll be u teenage girls go with their boy tea with the Elvis family who invited, too, and
DEL looking after him in the dozen other friends friends, 1 more than one's e quiet Grunwald family hotel rest for Elvis from driving Army is worth to play anything but where they have i one-Boor vehicles for the Third Armoured
Since then he has seen Division, suite
and a chance to get For Since he arrived in Germany Margrit several times and they hold of that guitar again,
brun oul fur walks the Army has rulea: Elvis must Jon his eighteen months service have
and we Armed
Drea fother -- a movies, not rock or live in barracks, Let the cl
every week-end our in October as plain Private together
Nur, may he make any puble mouth organ and French talk about this and that, and be Presley (Almy No 53310751) Elvis father as ever been to
at her Frankfurt appearances while in Germany poodle. For the time being the answers some of his mail. Elvis hos succeeded in mashig see Margrit
Any singing he mouth organ is taking the place looking fine and taking to Ammy the grade as a soldier and a home where she lives with der in the Army
cioes must be at home. And for ut
guitar and the
I must admit X volce life very well. "good guy" with his pals in the mother and grandparents.
the next few weeks, home does which the Ariny has banned never thought he would do so
in while Elvia is on duty.
well as a soldier." Act
Army tent mean the
Elvin is spending
Gift
even the officers in his unit.
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**Fic's just 11 quiet, nice "But it's grandmum's Southern his nights under the stars with character who is a
of moving out of the hotel and mure-than- cooking that 1
to at the temperatures around freez- Ko home
With his ing. average good soldler," said one night," "confided Elvis.
While he is away it's Vernon, into a house, especially after of them. "Girl frienda? The grandmother is his father Vernon But at any rule he is saying his father, who deals with 700 the first hotel they lived in failed only German girl he knows lives Presley, and between them they 20,000 in taxes during the one to 1,000 fan letters that stream to keep the crowds of curious
out and teenagers
of Part of the mail, fana in Frankfurt, and he won't be make Friedberg as near a home month he's living rough.
lu every day, For while Elvis is in the Army which comes from the U.S. Presley's room even at night. able to see her again until he's from home as it can be for Elvis. back from manoeuvres,
What Elvis misses most are the he's taxed only on his £7 clogs up the U.S. Army postal Some of his German admirers women who even Pretty, blonde
The rest are older 10-year-old hot Southern spices that make week private's pay, and not on service at Friedberg. Margrit Buergin, a typist in a Grandmum's cooking taste bet- hir million dollar a year income, streams in via a blue-uniformed tried to bribe the porter in the them go upstairs Frankfurt firm, met Elvis when ter back in U.S.A., he told me. which usually brings the U.S. German postman who delivers lictel to let she helped with pictures a Ger- Ela father is planning a big Treasury over £200,000 t year it in a special mustard coloured "just for a look," nan photographer was making Christmas
of Presley. The pictures turned Elvis
gets
out One and Margrit stayed to soidlering.
homecoming back fruin Margrit has
when in taxes. rough Two
been Presley possessions
new
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
NUCLEAR
SUICIDE
in
the
vau to the Presley hotel twice Elvis, who is working a tough additions (o the day. Said father Presley: "I. 6 u.m.' to 5
pm. day were con- go out there to the manoeuvre Army and has to be on time like any other. G.I., decided to get cut from under. He moved with Grandmum and father Ver- non to another hotel where he (could at any rate get quiet night's sleep. Now the Presleya [have given up the house idea. "It would need a dozen police- keep the fans troza alorming the place," an official sald "Or we would have to dotach milltary polico to do the job-and that's definitely out. l'e casier in the hotel where ho in now. They manage to run Things to that Private Presley gets his seven hours' sleep des- pite the favs. We don't mind what he does-na long, as he's fon duty on time each morning."
"HELP! POLICE ! SHE'S DISTURBING THE PEACE
Korden kapreis Jarviok
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IL'A Presicy's father Who drives with him to the, barracka every day when ho le stationed in Friedberg. They take a taxi and Pop collects, the mail from the Army post office and takes I home to answer after drop- ping Elvis at the gate. At night Elvis takes a taxi or sets, a lift In m army truck back to his hotel.
But among Elvis' fona is lucky Margrit Buergin, who is looking forward most
Christmas,
though It's hard going for both of them because Margrit knows about four words of English and Elvis not even that amount of German
That is why a tiny dictionary ROOD, Cverywhere with Margrit And why she is taking Bogah Icasund. By the time Elvia Presley Ecto- back from manoeuvres who hopes to be ablo to carry on a proper conveT-4 ration with him.
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