WHO WILL FOLLOW STALIN?
Received Thursday, S.5) p.m. LONDON, Sept. 2. _ Declaring that Ool.-Oeueral Zhdanov ? death will ereate a new line up in the struggle for second place in the Soviet leadership, tlie Daily Mail's Stock-vibn co.rrespondent ineutions four men who he says, are presented .with new c.pportunities by the sud'dfen pasdiag c l Stalin \s " Crowu Priiice." They are, lirstly, Mr. Pavlovich Peria, head 1 f tlie Ucstapo organisation, popularly known as the Ogpu; secondly, Mr. Nicolai Bulganin, head of the Red Arniy 's .aiunter-espionage organisation; thirdly, Mr. Georgei Malenkov, secretarv of the Communist Party; fourthly, Mr. Molotov. Any one of these, he adds, lre.y beconie Stalin 's suceessor but the u «iu with the best chances is eonsideivii to be Beria who is eertain to comc cut more powerful than over. Marshal Stalin took over i'roni a young worker in the guanl of honour over the bodv of Col.-General Zhdanov as it lav in state at Trade I'nion itm.se, aceording to the Moscow radio. Tlie guard also included Mr. Molotov. Thousands of people lined the. .-trecfs when the bodv arrived and a iiuge Ciowd gathered in front of Trade I'nion House.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 September 1948, Page 5
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