ZHDANOFF

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1941, Page 7

ZHDANOFF

IS HE STALIN’S HEIR? QUICK RISE TO INFLUENCE The man who sits at Joseph Stalin's ; right hand these days, in sessions of j the Supreme Soviet, is Andrew Alexj androvich Zhdanotf. a comparative I newcomer who is already a power in ’the high councils of Russia <writes the i Moscow correspondent of the "ChristHan Science Monitor"!. ; Only since 1934. when he became | secretary of the Communist Party in , the Leningrad district, has Zhdanotf I been a national figure, and now. like ! .Mr Stalm. he is not an official member of the Government. But at the moment fie . generally regarded as most. likely heir and sueeessor to the Soviet dictator ; During the last Supreme Soviet j .Hons m .August, when the Baltic t States ..nd Northern Rumania were 1 taken into the Soviet Union, he was mmnst.rnlly with Mr Stalm. and their j friendship was displayed f<>r the benei tit of the nation’s deputies, When Mr Zhdanotf and Mr Stalin I -al -Me by - de at Council ses.-mns they hok like father and ?mm Both are i burly in physique. jovial in nature, land dark m complexion Mr Stalin's I hair growing grey, the he..• apparent’'* [-till ghsU-nmg black Both wear semi-mih’.ary grey tunics over their barn 1 chests They talk, juke and laugh t imther at :!.<■ rear ■ / the party bench m the grv;<t modern ! Council Chamber of th.- Kiemlm They i ise together . pplatid. and down i.-geth.-i !th the t< . mv. mi: G two well-trained .American football j .> i r . ■ i:'. i ■. • • ■ . * tHe ■ .if the pat ty benche on the right ■l l 'lie Speakei' tribune acr-.-. (rum th'-! Government benelicx. where stt Prem- j Next, nearer the front, coinei Mr I Zltil.m ." .mi the’’ p.-:ty |.-ad<-:-I ' S* ■ I • ' ’ ‘ (* 1 I!’.!if; * 1 P, :tv M; Zb.fi . m. Z h.-lc- '«•<•••! I ■ pi. ee m ■•>.- ! ~!■•. 1.. ■ < hi. f ’ mngr.ui the •< ,mi < ity of R m | imi <>m there it would be only j p !.- f . !:m to be m.> ti! ■ ' ’he rn !:< rn. . 1 v, b..M or. !-.<■ j! d-