The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-10
D EppY cILMoRR


sy EDDY GILMORE
STOCKHOLM, sweden u Ia.
vrenty r. Beria's expulsion from
the Communist party and Soviet
government means that Premier
GeorRi Malenk0v - and perhaps
others nov feel strong enough or
desperate enough 70 doom the su-
preme policeman TO utter disgraee.
m this mighty struggle for Sta
Inns power. which does not neces-.
sarily appear 10 have ended, the
sensational action against Beria
was q natural development.
Like 50 many other mysterious
things about that mysterious coan-
try, Russia. when did Il al take
place?
Has IBERIA Just now been kicked
out 81 the party and government
or did all this happen some time
ago7
Just before I !eft Moscow, high
members Of the party and gov
eminent on June n watched the
premiere Of . new opera at the
Bolshoi Theater
oddly, very oddly, Beria's name
was not listed among those pres
ent.
DO you suppose That It's IL
ready happened7" one Western
diplomat asked me, referring %
what We 81 expected Ii the power
struggle the inevitable arrest of
someone On top.
The e0id-eyed Georgia has been
damned BY the most terrifying
phrase 81 81 Ii the Soviet lexicon
-an enemy 81 the party and peo-
pie,
on TOP 81 this be has been
branded an international imperi-
alist agent, sickeningly familiar
expression.
From almost every angle. Beria
has had 4.
II seems certain that the Su-
preme Court. which now has bis
case Ii is hands, win give him
the works
One 81 the momentOus points in
velved Ii the disgrace Of BerIa u
the question Of what connection It
has with recent moves d tle So
Wet government u slightly nor.
mnllze some relations with the
West and make The gestures Of q
new look.
Another mighty question 81 the
m0ment. has the struggle for pow
er been halted with Beria's Dis.
graceY
This action against him indicates
on first examination that the po-
lice have been dealt with BY Malen-
kov or others. II the police
have been dealt with, what about
the army?
Is someone else, IN the hours
before dawn, dramatic things AZ
waye happen IN Russia shortly be-
fore sunrisel gong to be accused
Of being an enemy Of the party
aud people and an international
limperialist agent9
Anything can happen ii Russia.
\ Aything.
The appointment 81 Sergei KFug-
Low, already high-ranking %
liceman. Is intriguing for this great
numbering fellow was and Is 4
friend Of ". NJ. MOlotov.
What has Molotov, Stalin,s old
friend and now foreign minister.
had 10 do with Reria's disgrace?
Maybe very little; maybe very
much.
And II Mnlotov fas wedged his
knee in the powarhOuse door, then
/ the tears he shed at Stains funer.
al--when Malenkov and IBERIA were
dry.eyed may also have begun
10 dry.
Last night I wrote Z story and
mailed Il to New York Il began:
Who's running Russia todayl" n
ended: when | recently saw IBERIA
and Malenkov together - three
times now since Stains death -
there was no question IN my mind
who was running the show. II
WAS Malenkoy, Georgi Macmillan.
| ovich.a
This morning hat reads even
better than last night.
Beria's disgrace could very wei
be connected with The East Berlin
and East German uprisings. II 4.
known IN Moscow that he has had
not only his finer but his whole
| arm in the hubhling German eaul
| drnn.
/ Has Stains old fellow country,
man bots were GeOrgians beer
damned because Of tbisl
II IS quite possible. no matter
what official explanation Is nov
rolling of the propaganda machine
/ 81 the Central Committee Of ths
Communist party.
Twelve years u watching events
in Russia have certainly con
WINGED me Of one thing: wher
something happens as has hap
pened IN Germany. somebody Ia,
10 be singled out. II It Is anybody
the boys can get their hands cn
punishment follows denunciatior a
81 ,.ssle 49,. S.,,