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SHOE'S ON THE OTHER FOOT-—Celebrating 50th anniversary,
of the opening of his bootblack stand on New York's Hanover.
Square, Tony Übino, 72, right, gets a shine from old-time customer |
Richard R. Adams, president of the Grace Steamship Line. He
proudly shows gold watch presented to him by officials of the,
steamship firm.
Writer Poses Question Of Stalin’s
Successor If Ailing Leader Dies
BY LEON DENNEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
PARIS.—(NEA)—In the midst
of conflicting reports about the
failing health of Joseph Stalin,
ruler of Soviet Russia and world
communism, the 72-year-old dic
tator turned up in Moscow this
spring for a rare public appear
ance.
Dispatches, cleared by Soviet
censors, said the Premier looked
fit and vigorous. But it was the
first time he had been seen in
Moscow since the Lenin nremorial
meeting in January.
A satellite diplomat who saw
him then said afterward that
Stalin seemed aged, tired and
ravaged with disease. It is a
known fact that he is suffering
from a heart ailment. Soviet ex
perts in Europe believe the ru
‘mors about his failing health are
probably true.
Apparently he is not well
enough to make his usual fre
quent winter trips to Moscow
from his retreat at Sochi, 700
miles away on the Black Sea.
Even top-level Politburo con
ferences are reported to be held
there now.
Stalin is a Georgian, one of a
sturdy half-primitive people that
boasts more centenarians than
any other of the numerous nation
alities that make up the Soviet
Union. But even Georgians are
mortal.
| Should Stalin die who is likely
to succeed him as ruler of world
communism?
Who in the Communist under=
world can inherit the legendary
glory with which the master of
the Kremlin surrounded himself
during his lifetime?
As yet, little credible informa
tion has come out of the secret
chanrbers of the Kremlin, But the
Cominform underworld — where
the grapevine is frequently faster
and more accurate than the con
trolled press — is seething with
rumor.
Members of Stalin’s immediate
entourage are reported to be
cautiously maneuvering in antici
pation of his death, There is even
talk of a schism inside the all
powerful Politburo.
Cominform chieftains — in the
East or in the West—must know
in advance who is likely to be
their next boss if they are to keep
their jobs.
Many owe their present posi
tions to the fact that they rallied
in time to Stalin’s side—while he
still engaged in mortal combat
with Leon Trotsky and other
early associates of Lenin.
Those who recall Stalin’s own
climb to power during Lenin’s
long illness see a familiar pattern
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in the intrigues, heresy-hunting
and purges now taking place in
the Cominform and behind the
iron curtain,
The West was recently baffled
by the purge of Rudolf Slansky,
former Secretary General of the
Czech Communist Party. |
Russian-trained Slansky was for
years a trusted agent of the Krem-~ |
lin, the Politburo’s eyes and ears
in 'the Cominform, Yet like Trai
cho Kostov in Bulgaria, ILaszlo
Rajk in Hungary, and other de
voted Stalinists behind the iron
curtain, he is facing “liquidation”
by firing squad.
Why? Is it because Vyacheslav
M. Molotoy, in his bid for Stalin’s
mantle, seeks to consolidate his
strength in the Cominform by
supporting Slansky’s rival and bit
ter enemy, Czech President Klem
ent Gottwald?
This is the prevailing view in
many western Cominform cir~
cles.
Were Kostov and Rajk executed
by the secret MVD because they
were adherents of the late Com
inform boss Andrei Zhdanov?
Zhdanov was widely regarded
as the man designated by Stalin
as his successor. But he was held
responsible by Georgi M. Malen
kov—another rising candidate for
the Red throne—for the break be
tween Marshal Titq and Stalin,
As Comgnform chief, Zhdanov ap=
parently faited to “liquidate” Tito
in time.
The 50-year-old Zhdanov died
suddenly in 1948 under mysteri=
ous circumstances. Two entirely
different communiques announc
ing his death were issued by the
Kremlin—one within a few hours
of the other. »
A top French Communist leader
has since told me that Zhdanov
|committed suicide. The French
man himself was involved in the
Stalin-Tito “affair.,” Zhdanov
chose suicide rather than fight it
out and eventually face an MVD
firing squad.
A bloody purge of “zhdanovists”
in. Russia and in the Cominform
followed. .
* With Zhdanov dead, three mem=
bers of the Politburo are consid=
ered likely successors to Stalin—
Vyacheslav M. Molotov, Georgi M.
Malenkov and Yavrenti P. Beria.
They arethe most powerful men
in the Politburo. They are part
! of Stalin’s “inner cabinet” charged
with the conduct of Russia’s gle
‘bal hot-cold war. Together, or sep
‘arately, it is they who will decide
‘the question of world peace or
‘world war should the aged and
ailing dictator die.
‘ Stalin has been acting as a sort
of fatherly “moderator” between
the warring factions.
By resorting to his traditional
“zig-zag tactic,” Stalin has man
aged to rotate his three crown
princess in the limelight without,
however, giving any one of them
too much power inside the Polit
buro. .
The aging dictator obviously
wants to prevent the type of coup
‘d’etat he himself engineered when
Lenin was on his death-bed.
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