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Evening star., 1953-03-08
Star STAFF Sketch by Newman sudduth.

good amount of unrest exists in
the satellites. CzechoSlovakia, for
instance, is the only nation to fall
directly from genuine democracy
into communiSm-and there must
be millions of Czechs who do not
like it. The Poles, again for eX-
ample, have never liked the Rus
slams. The slightest lack of vigi-
lance in the satellite ring-or the
slightest encouragement in the
form of successful Chinese Tito
ism" might cause great upheaval
in Central Europe.
3. The problem OF Russia it.
self. The Soviet Union has been
plagued for years, in peace and in
war, with. certain amount of
"counterrevolution." The Ukrain-
ianS are notorious rebels. With
out firm grip on all arms of
state authority, Malenkov might
possibly find himself faced with
trouble inside his own country,
as even Stain did.
One for the West
The prospects for the Western
World would be bright if troubles
faced only Georgi Malenkov. There
is a very real peril, however, that
faces the West. That grows OUT
of the nature of Malenkcv himself.
The new dictator is no carbon
copy of Stain. He is, as far as can
be determined, a more fanatical
type. Stain was an old Boishevik;
he remembered when Russia was
no threat at all to the world He
built Russia up, not by getting her
into wars, but by keeping her out
of them. He was cold and calculat-
ing, it is true; but he was, above
all, cautious. AS one anti-Commu-
mist Russian here put it last week,
"Stalin was not a brave man"
Perhaps Malenkov is not brave
either. But there is the possibility
that he might be foolhardy. He
has never been outside Russia
and he never knew a Russia that
was not Communist. He might
easily overeStimate mis- nations
strength-and hurl the world into
war.
Happily for the West, however,
Evening star., 1953-03-08

One OF. the well-established tradi-
tions Of the huge parade which
marks that day is the presentation
Of flowers to Stain by a little girl.
Stain, "the Great Leader and
Teacher" the spiritual father of
all the worlds Communists, SYM
bolically kisses the girl after he
receives the bouquet. Last May
Day, however, the little girl was
favored with kiss not only from
Papa Stain, but from Uncle NAL
enkov as well. With men who
know the Kremlin best, it should
have been Malenkov two to one
as Stalin's successor from that
moment on.
Malenkov's keynote address be-
fore the party congress did touch
off wave of conjecture that a
new palace guard was preparing to
take over. Frequent mention of
Malenkov in "Pravda" bolStered
this notion. But with Stain steal
ing the thunder with a party-line
survey in "Bolshevik" magazine;
there was a healthy amount of
doubt. His tired, sickly appear
ance at the congress, however, told
close students of the Kremlin that
the Red dictator was fading.
New Light on Purge
But almost everybody missed an
equally important item: Malen-
kov's bid for power in the purging
of the nine Kremlin doctors last
January. Blinded by the obvious
anti-Semitic aspects of the case,
most foreign observers overlooked
Cor at least underratedJ the in
ternal politics involved.
In a nutshell, this was the case
of the Kremlin doctors: A top
Soviet brass-hat, Andrei zhdanov,
and five military leaders had died
some years ago, supposedly Of
natural causes. The rumor per-
sisted, however, that Malenkov
had a murderous finger in Zhda-
nov's death, and possibly those of
the military men.
In raising the issue of the doc
tors, Malenkov managed to kill
three birds with one stone:
o He shifted the blame from him.
Evening star., 1953-03-08

self to the chief of the secret
police, who should have detected
the plot-if indeed he had not
engineered it.
. He created suspicion within the
armed forceS-which he did not
control-So he would have grounds
later to undertake purge of the
military.
Q He bred a herd of medical
scapegoatS to be held in reserve for
slaughter in case any one should
ask embarrassing questions about
Stalin's DEATH Obviously, any of
his rivals could, if necessary, be
accused of inf1ltrating the medical
profession with anti-Stalinist ele-
mentS.
Other Proportions
There were undoubtedly many
other advance preparations that
Malenkov had made for last weeks
coming-out party. He had re-
vealed one of them in his long
keynote address before the party
congress last october. Political
comnissars, be disclosed, we're to
get the same military training as
commanding officers in the armed
forces. Obviously, Malenkov was
packing the military establish
ment with his own party men.
Adding up this evidence after
the event, it was undeniable that
Georgi Malenkov had laid his plans
well, probably with the knowledge,
consent and aid of Stain.
But making plans and carrying
them out are frequently two diff
ferent things. Probably the tough
est job ahead of Malenkov today
is to arrange his own dedication.
Stain was more than a dictator;
carefully, over the years, he had
been built up as a sort of god in
goddess society. Malenkov may
be boss; he is not yet god. Nor
is he particularly godlike. 1t will
be a masterpiece of press-agentry
to remake this pudgy, porcine
Cossack into the image of the
great Stain.
Three Big Problems
This is a problem. But just as
it cannot be solved Immediately,
it does not really require immedi-
ate solution. Some other prob
lens do:
/. The problem OF Mao. Thou
sands of miles east of the Kremlin,
a man at least as stiff f-necked as
Malenkov holds sway over half a
billion Chinese. He is Mao Tse-
tung, and he regards himself as
the No. 2 man of the Communist
world only after Stain. Where
Malenkov fits into Mao's picture
is unclear; he could not rank
higher than No. 3. Will the Chi
nese No. 2 now permit the Rus
sian No. 3 to leapfrog over him
into the top position? Many anti
Communists believe, and many
more hope, he will not.
2. The problem of the satellites.
Yugoslavia'S Tito showed the slave
world that it is possible to break
away from the Soviet orbit. A
Evening star., 1953-03-08
The Chongeover

TN THE DAYS Immediately fol-
L lowing the announcement of
Stalin's stroke, prediction was rife
that the lid would blow off the
Kremlin. Much was made of the
fact that only a month ago the
United States had made a peace
full transition from one chief Of
state to another-and that this
couldn't possibly happen in Russia.
Yet happen it did. But, as Boris
Godunov said, "How, ask not"
Stain was hardly comfortably
settled on his bier in the Hall of
Columns before an official Moscow
radio broadcast announced that,
in effect, Georgi Malenkov had
taken over for the dead dictator.
Not only did Malenkov succeed
to Stalin's principal title-chair-
man of the Council of Minister'S
he brought a good many of Stalin's
boys along up with him. AS far as
any one knows, not shot was
fired during the whole proceed
ings.
But to infer any similarity be-
tween what happened Friday in
Moscow and what happened jan
uary 20 in Washington would be
ill-considered in the extreme. Here,
the people had everything to say
about who would take over; there,
the people had nothing to say. 1t
was all settled in the Russian
equivalent of a Smoke-filled room.
SO high and thick are the walls
of the Kremlin that no one out
side them could possibly say with
certainty anything about the re-
hearsals that preceded last weeks
public showing of the Stain
drama. It has been suggested
that Stain was dead before he
was declared sick, that the an
nouncement of his fatal illness"
was not made until the loose ends
had all been tied up. There is
nothing fantastic about this sug-
geStion; it would fit in well with
the conspiratorial natures of the
Kremlin'S top men and would
make it easy for them to time the
changeover to their own ad-
vantage.
Seeing Double?
It has been suggested, too, that
Stain may have been dead for
months, and that a more or less
quiet wrangle has been going on
until now. The Indian govern
ment has denied categorically
that it's Ambassador to Moscow
may have seen a double" last
month when he called on Stain
in the Kremlin. But the fact is
that the Indian, K. P. S. Menon,
had never met Stain in his life
before that meeting. That goes,
too, Tor the Argentine envoy VINO
saw him 10 days before.
At any rate, whether the struggle
for power lasted for months, or
only for days, or never even mate
rialized, Malenkov was firmly
enough in the saddle by Friday to
announce his primacy in Moscow.
He was not necessarily supreme, in
the sense that Stain was supreme.
This is indicated by the fact that
he still had some of his rivals on
the payroll, quite out of keeping
with normal Soviet practice.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Review Of The Week. Stains Mantle Falls to Ma|enkov

this does not seem an immediate
probability. For the time being
Malenkov seems to have his hands
full simply consolidating the tre-
mendous personal gains he has
made.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Reaction

Throughout the Stain crisis, the
Communist Party and the Council
of Ministers (Which inherited the
dictator's power) handled the
Soviet Unions millions with velvet
gloves. But they never let it be
forgotten for a moment that with
in those soft gloves were the same
Evening star., 1953-03-08
The Lost Days

CTALIN-according to the Krem-
- Inns story-died in the great
Bolshevik tradition, as Lenin had.
Sunday night he suffered a
hemorrhage in the left side of his
brain, where the functions of the
body'S right side are controlled. It
left his right side paralyzed and
threw him into a coma. AS 10
nervous doctors lowered around
his bedside using every form of
therapy from modern antibiotics
to medieval leeches, Stain vege-
tated-and slowly died.
On Tuesday evening all hope was
abandoned. The first of four COM
muniqueS was issued. Here is what
they showed:
Breothins Pulse Blood Temper
Time (ESD Rote Rate Pressure otUre
sem JS:; IVES e. ,o61S l7S 21Sl7S 21S'7S 1SGs 3Ss
8 am. Thurs. 3oT l2O 1o0-lOO IOV
l:5o pm. Thurs. "0eoth--
irregular. fcheyne-stokes breothng.
Thousands of doctors followed
the case with interest. Assuming
the Soviet medicos were telling the
truth, their reports gave physicians
the world over as clear picture as
they could have obtained at the.
bedside. One American doctor
last week gave this Interpretation
of the data:
Keeping in mind thot StoIn wos 73. his
respiration wos about twice whot it should
have been. But the foet thot it woS
Irregular wos more importont thon thot
it wos rupid And when "Cheyne- Stokes"
set in on Thursday morning, Stulin wos
as GOOD as deod. Thot is q. type OF
breothino that is almost olwoys ossocioted
with incipient deoth. The potent lies
for q long time-up to two minutes
without breathing at all. Then he breothes
very ropidIy.
As to the pulse, the irresuIurity is more
siqnificont thon the rote itself, although
So to II is normal for q man Stolin's oee.
The futter between l06 and ll6 on
Wednesday evening wos definite bod
sign.
StoIn's blood pressure undoubtedly was
high to stort with. The cerebroI hemcr-
rhoqe proboby roised it somewhat But
getting the blood pressure down wos not
necessarily good thing. When it dropped
so points in IA hours between Wednesday
night and Thursday morning. StuIin wos
on his woy out.
The temperature in itself wos not sig
nificont at all. A fever is normally os-
socioted with broin hemorrhose.
StoIin wos in bod shape to stort with.
But you con say that for all procticol
purposes he storted dying Wednesday
evening. 1t just took him till Thursday
afternoon to finish the process
The guardian., 1953-02-28
Science Studies
Frozen Body

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Though
friends or relatievs failed to
claim the body of 52-year-old
John Brown fro mthe District
Morgue, science was very much
interested in it.
Brown had been found frozen
stiff" Wednesday in an alley
shack with his body temperature
21.6 degrees below normal. He
clung to life for % hours at
Gallinger Hospital while doctors
vainly tried every method known
to thaw him out.
If no one claims the body in
seven days. it will be sent to the
medical school. Meanwhile, an
autopsy was being performed at
Gallinger where Supt. Phillip
Stebbing said, Science is def
nitelys interested in what we'll
learn
The guardian., 1953-02-28
Diamond Ball GEittenngs
BY Casey

Mrs. Laura Morris, General
Chairman at HI 5-2706 can tell
you where your help is needed.
Her line is very busy but
keep trying!
One of the fascinating hus-
band and wife teams working
for the Ball is Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Frederick Dixon - he's
doing art work she, the FL
nance Chairman, no less.
That grand School Teacher,
Inez ]. Russell, is whipping to-
gether a stupendous production
for this Mechanics Ball, May Is
extravaganza. No easy task get
ting people fro mall over to do
the same thing at the same time.
No easy task getting people,
No "so-longS" from Casey un-
til word about ardent worker
Gretchen Jackson, the beauti-
full. Everything she touches
turns to gold. She's the Brook
line Newton Area Chairman, but
folk from everywhere are flock
ing into her hubby's clarence
Noel Jackson) Douglass Square
Pharmacy at 1902 fremont st.
to get their donors cards before
the deadline. She tells them
about their Area Chairman, in
spires them to attend and enjoy
that enchanting May IS evening
when beiewelled elegance will be
in its glory and easily brings to
life the lines -.
THE gift, to be true, must be
the flowing of the giver unto
me, correspondent to my owing
unto him."
The guardian., 1953-02-28

lights have never been extin-
guished. They have shone for
generations and will continue to
shine until God displays his
wrath, destroys this and creates
another world. We pay homage
to Crispus Attucks not only for
his martyrdom, but also because
he was one of the patriotic fore
runners of the Freedoms the
people in America now enjoy.
All out then to do honor to
black Attucks and his co-martyrs.
Let us pack st. Cyprian's Epis-
copal Church on fremont st.,
SUNDAY. March /, for the prelim-
mary observance; then on to
downtown Boston on Thursday,
March 5 to the Spot, pausing
next at the Old Granary Bury
ing Ground where the FIVE mar
tvrs lie buried in one grave, with
wreath laid. then to the monu-
ment where final exercises are
held. Let it be a sacred pilgrim
age to the shrines of the noble
dead.
Our tonsorisl men-about-town
are awaiting the call of clothiers,
hsberdashers and hsndy-get-at
marts for Easter finery Durng
that sacred week of early spring
hair-cuts reservations will be at
a premium. Our artists Of the
Blue Eagle are having their
razors honed, scissors shsrpened
and scrutinizing their combs to
see that the missing teeth will
be replaced.
Evacuation Day will be our
next state holiday.
More next week.
The guardian., 1953-02-28
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CONTINUED from Page One)
graduate of Boston University,
member of Senior Class of Har-
ward Law School
(2) Laco johnson, graduate of
Town State College and Boston
University Graduate School
CNIA) sociologist.
(s) Donald Stout, Graduats
Syracuse University. At present
Harvard Divinity School, Assist
ant Minister Community Church
Of Boston.
Moderator: Henry L. Parker,
graduate of Gordon College, Bos-
ton, at present Harvard Divinity
School.
This forum is part Of the State
wide educational campaign in
behalf of Constitutional Rights
and Liberties, approved and
sponsored by the Board Of Di-
rectors of the Mass. Council Of
Churches. A display on the Bill
Of Rights and literature will be
available
Following: Coffee Hour.
The guardian., 1953-02-28

J U LIAM C. BRANKER,
REALTOR SAYS: YOUR HOME,
YOUR BUSINESS, MAKE 1T
SECURE INSURE! SPECIAL
IZENG IN REAL ESTATE AND
INSURANCE OF EVERY DES-
CRIPTION, STRESSING COUR-
TES Y SERVICE INTEGRITY
386A Warren Street, ROx-
A Boston Chapter of the Afri-
can National Improvement Asso-
citation was formed Friday, Feb.
20 at a meeting held at 222
Northampton st. Temporary Off
GERS are DR.. Ayodelle Samuels,
president; Dr. Robert A. Sim
mons, vice-president; John w.
Parker, secretary; Miss Josie Nell
son, treasurer. Interested per-
sons are asked to contact DIR.
Robert A. Simmons, 222 North
ampton St, Boston 18, Mass.
Club Amand of Boston, pre-
sents in person the One and Only
Symphony Sid Record Hop, Fri
day evening, 8 PM, March s, at
New England Mutual Hall, Bos-
ton.
bury, HI 2-377O, HI 5-8174.
Evangelist F. Reed announces
that the Holy Ghost Filled Spirit
ual Church of Christ, 397 COlurn-
bus ave. will broadcast over Sta
ton W.M.E.X. (dial 1870 KC)
each Sunday beginning Sunday,
Feb. Is at 9:45 am. to 10 am.
The Mid-Week Prayer Circle
will meet at the home of Mrs.
Dorothy Hester, 9 baltimore Ct,
3rd floor, apt. 100, Tuesday,
March 3, about 8 PM. Bible les
son is Acts 18th chapter
A bus-load of Bostonians at
tended the United Baptist Church
Convention session which was
held at John St. Baptist Church,
Worcester, last Monday. Among
those making the trip in private
cars were Mr.. and Mrs. James 1.
Hall of Ebenezer Church.
The guardian., 1953-02-28

mates and the bell is constantly
ringing. 1t is fun to see all the
little children ring the bell and
hear them say "Bobbie, come on
out and play" Grandma Childs
is certainly happy to have her
darling little grandchild with her
again.
Mrs. Regina Lewis was host
ess to the Resthaven League,
Wednesday night of last week at
her home, 977 fremont st. Prin-
cipal business centered on the
program for the Appreciation
Day meeting, which will be held
April 10 at the Columbus Ave.
A.M.E. Zion Church, with A.
Philip Randolph of New York as
guest speaker. Members enjoyed
a delicious collation. served by the
hostess.
Will we see you at st. Cypri-
ans Episcopal Church this Sun
day at $3.50 PM, when colorful
meeting will be held, preliminary
to the observances of March 5
when the pilgrimage to the sacred
spots in downtown Boston will
be held? Mrs. Steward especi-
ally wants all her friends to be
present at the Granary Burying
ground on fremont st. near Park
st. and the fremont Temple)
where she is booked to preside.
The daily papers will seek to
make a sensation down there
(they have already called her
up to know what she is going
to say barking back to March 5,
| l951-remember?) There will be
notables there including the Gov
ernor with whom she enjoys a
long standing friendship. This
service comes promptly at 1880
Am. "See you there" AS to
Sunday, it will be a sparkling
meeting. Gov. Herter is invited
others from the State House, for
mer Gov. and Mayor and Mrs
Curley, and all the prominent
eolored men and women of thC
city, all are invited except trait
ors (they will not be there)
After the scintillating program
Of sharp, 3-minute tributes t.
Crispus Attucks and splendiC
The guardian., 1953-02-28
Blue Eagle News
BY BARBER SHOP CHORD

Crispus Attucks attained his
torical fame on the eve of the
American Revolt to despotic
rule He was one of the FIVE
martyrs, who sacrificed their lives
March 5, ITO, known as the
Boston Massacre. Coming from
Framingham, he joined Boston's
colonists in resentment of Brit
ish inquisitions; he played
dramatic role in the foundation
Of a nation that won independ-
ence from a tyrannical empire.
On that bleak March day when
he was slain, Boston was under
going a siege of mob violence.
British soldiers were patroling
the streets armed with guns to
curb the maddened colonists. A
blaze of gun-ire was the climax
on State st. where five martvrs
fell including CriSpus Attucks. A
state funeral was held few dsvs
after this sad event in Kings
Chapel attended by scores of en-
ragged coloniSts. That incident in
tensified and activated a spirit
Of liberty for people suffering
the iniquities of taxation with
out representation" Lexington.
Concord, Bunker Hill and the
British evacuation of Boston
were historic panoramic episodes,
which the Boston Massacre pre-
ceded. Crispus Attucks and his
co-martyrs carried their respec-
tive liberty torches to a glori-
Gus ending from which a nation
Of Freedoms was founded. Those
The guardian., 1953-02-28
IABBERWoCK

The best in Drama and Musical
Entertainment
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1853
John Hancock Hall
The guardian., 1953-02-28
SOCIAL CALENDAR

music and the special brilliant
talk by Harvard boy, Walter Car
rington, tea and social hour
will be enjoyed. It will be a
veritable love feast of loyal
friends, true to the memory of
Crispus Attucks and true to the
memory of that brave young cru
sader, William Monroe Trotter
who, way back in the early part
of the century, planned the
Massacre Day exercises and with
out funds from the city kept up
the observance until his death,
after which Louis E. Pasco, Sr.
aided by other loyal Equal Rights
League members continued the
tradition. All went well until
March of 1852 when self-seekers
entered the picture injecting poll
tics into it. Will Boston colored
citizens stand for that?
Friends of Mrs. Edith Lewis of
st. Germain st. were saddened
by news this week of her death.
Mrs. Lewis was the widow, first,
of Mr.. w. c. Lovett (brother of
Mrs. Minnie Walker and the
mother of Mrs. Joseph Hughes,
Jr. Did you know that Mrs.
Columbus w. Harrison and FAM
ily have moved to 379 Mass. ave-,
that is, she is preparing the
apartment for her occupancy and
If not there at this writing will
soon be living at that address.
Her friends are glad to have her
up here. And most exciting
news of all is that the Clarence
Cameron Whites are to move
from New York to permanent
residence in Boston, that is, just
as soon as Mrs. Steward can find
them a suitable apartment (Which
is rather a joke as she has not
found one for herself since the
great fire of March 81, 1852 which
destroyed all her be-
longings all except her piano
which is still at the 932 address,
all help to find Clarence
White and his lovely wife nice
quarters in the Hub. What a
splendid thing for musical Bos-
toni
MUSICANA - FAMED So
SOLOIST FEATURED
AT KSC - The Lyceum Com
mittee of Kentucky State Col
lege presented Adele Addison,
brilliant soprano soloist, In the
second of a regular series of con-
certs at the College, Sunday,
Feb. Is. Miss Addison, who has
skyrocketed to the heights of
music in the last three years
since her recital debut in Bos-
ton in 1949, thrilled a capacity
crowd with her golden voice,
song after song. One OF the best
loved features on the musical
program was Sometimes I Feel
Like a Motherless Child. Miss
Addison previously won the COW
eted WGN Career Performance
Award. WARFIELD-"The
greatest baritone of our time"
pittsburgh Press y whom the
Women's Service Club presents in
Symphony Hall, Sunday after
noon March 29.- The foregoing
club holds a coffee hour this Sum
day at club headquarters, 464
Mass. ave. ST. PM.