Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, February 10, 1955
Shift of Power in Russia Has No Clear-Cut Meaning
The sudden shift of power in Russia has no clear-cut meaning—at least at the present. And, although it came with dramatic suddenness, the fall of Premier Georgi Malenkov was preceded by rumors and signs.
When Lavrentti P. Beria was purged a few months ago, many observers believed that Malenkov had sacrificed Beria to save his own neck. They went on to predict that Malenkov wouldn't last much longer as premier.
And it's a question that can only be answered in part—at least at this time.
The shift of power to Marshal Nikolai Bulganin could mean one of two things:
But what has gone before now must play second fiddle to the big question: What's to come?
First, it could mean that the Russian army is now the power in the Kremlin. Bulganin is first and foremost a military thinker. Only lately did Bulganin turn to politics. In the battle of Moscow in 1941 he first gained attention as the commander of the civilian army which defended the Russian capital. In 1947 he became vice chairman of the council of ministers in charge of defense.
Bulgani was a close friend of the late premier, Josef Stalin.
Upon taking over the job as premier of the Soviet, Bulganin promised the Russian Supreme Soviet (parliament) a return to a policy that emphasized heavy industry and agricultural development—not consumer goods.
In Bulganin is the possibility of a strong Stalinlike leader.
Second, the shift could mean that the real power in Russia is spread out and that Bulganin is merely the front man for the ruling group. In other words, there's the possibility that the real leaders of Russia are still in the background.
This is pointed up by the power held by one of Russia's really strong men, Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev, the general secretary of the Russian Communist party, put his strength into the Soviet machine and gave Malenkov's foes the ability to unite—an ability they didn't have, even with Bulganin, before Khrushchev.
And Malenkov's foes are today's powerful men in Russia:
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov; Defense Minister Bulganin; Stalin's close friend, Lazar Kaganovich; and Khrushchev.
These—with the exclusion of Khrushchev—are the old Bolshevik leaders who had served Stalin well during the years when Stalin was battling Leon Trotsky for mastery of the Communist party and Russia.
They resented Stalin's choice as his successor — "Fat Boy" Malenkov.
But despite their discontent they didn't have the necessary unity to overthrow Malenkov. They found that unity behind Khrushchev.
With the shift of power to Bulganin now, more than ever, the importance of Khrushchev must be realized.
Many persons today must wonder if Bulganin is the voice of Russia or the voice of Khrushchev.
—John Herrington
Use Chains to Prevent Stalling on Snow
A long line of cars moves slowly up 14th street and finally comes to a halt as the lead car becomes stalled on the ice. The thoughtless one didn't realize that about 10 cars were tied up behind him. He thought he surely could get up the hill without chains and that snow tires were a waste of money. The car behind him either must push him to the top of the hill or maneuver into position to go around him.
It then becomes the job of a group of Good Samaritans to push him.
Equally frustrating is the optimistic soul who becomes stalled while pulling out of a parking place. He thinks that if he once gets out into the street he won't need his chains. He pulls into the street far enough to stop traffic and becomes mired in the snow and cannot move in either direction.
Also disturbing is the person who, finding himself stuck, spends the next hour madly spinning his wheels making a nerve shattering whine in a futile effort to free himself. The time-tested remedy in this situation is still a strong application of muscle power.
These traffic bottle-necks can be avoided if motorists will use chains or snow tires in snowy weather or leave their cars at home. The latter suggestion is still probably the best. Walking through the snow for a few blocks probably would do most of us a lot of good.
Well, the House has agreed to a four-year extension of the draft law. The Senate is expected to do likewise. And the students non-veteran-type—can start sweating again.
Gordon Hudelson
Coming of age in Samoa wouldn't be so bad—not when you consider that it might have been the Tachen islands.
Motorists in New York state pay more than $410,000,000 a year in automobile insurance premiums.
Yale University has an annual payroll of $12,500,000 paid to 1,500 faculty members and to 2,500 members of administrative and maintenance staffs.
Whose prime minister this is, I know not whose. But you can always make a safe wager that if it's a new one, it belongs to France.
Of Vermont's 14 counties, there are 10 in which more than half the land is forested.
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Book Review—
'Who Speaks for Man?' Is Big in Scope, Interest
"Who Speaks For Man?" is a big book,big both in scope and in interest to the reader. It is Norman Cousins' plea for world government and for world citizenship.
The book is made up of incidents Mr. Cousins saw first hand—the rapid rebuilding, strongly hoping people of Hiroshima, the Korean war, the once Nazi-minded, now suddenly democratic, students in German universities.
As we closed the book some big black headlines were running through our mind. We thought of the squabble a few months ago over Britain recognizing Red China, and how the United States threatened to withdraw from the UN over the incident. We thought of the surplus wheat in Kansas that could have gone to India, but didn't, due to a question in the Senate concerning what would be best for the United States economy.
All these elements—the hotter and mightier hydrogen bomb tests, the starving peoples of India—make up our world today. Mr Cousins combines them and brings to the reader's attention the immediate necessity of some sort of world government to cope with and control the varying loose factions in the world today.
Historical experience, and the principles, backed by the will and determination of enough people to invest their hopes, energies and common destiny in an organized community under law would give the world a chance to be a peaceful planet.
We're forgetting that because of the sheer accident of birth rate we weren't born in Korea or China or some other country we dismiss with a sigh, after saying "poor, starving people."
We have an organization in which all these people, and all the facts and data of the world situation today, are supposed to be remembered and acted upon. We have the UN, but in it they squabble and fight and veto. We're forgetting—all of us, America, the world—how to co-operate.
But all this can never be unless we realize the value of man and the value of human life. We in America can wake up—we can assume leadership towards this goal of world organization. We can, in the words of Norman Cousins, "speak for man."
Yet within the UN is the capacity to grow into a body capable of creating and enforcing world law. This development would require more than altering documents or devising new coverings to conceal weaknesses. What is required is the recognition of the world as a place habitated by peoples—human beings.
We must re-educate ourselves regarding the peoples of the world. We must look at the Indian student, the Chinese student, the German student on the campus. We must think that here is a person, one person who comes from a country holding millions like him. We must know the peoples of the world, and we must recognize the fact that we live on a great planet holding human beings whose lives are just as important as our own.
We can see, with Mr. Cousins' guiding hand, that we Americans are forgetting that people live in India, and Japan, and Ceylon and 50 other countries.
We're forgetting that these people are human beings, who must eat as we do, who must feel and think, and hope and pray. They are not statistics, they are people.
To preserve the world and the peoples in it, we must have a world government—a government dedicated to the preservation and advancement of mankind. The human mind thought up war, and surely the human mind can invent peace with justice.
—Mary Bess Stephens