STALIN STILL BOSS

Evening Star, Issue 25993, 7 January 1947, Page 5

STALIN STILL BOSS

Intrigues Summarily Quashed Molotov In High Favour (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.)

(Rec. 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. (5. British correspondents in Moscow state that the lists of candidates for the forthcoming elections of the Governments of the Con- . stituent Republics of the U.S.S.R appear to confirm the perdominance of Generalissimo Stalin and his chief supporters, notably M. Molotov. The ‘ Observer’s’■ Moscow correspondent says that it is evident that Stalin on his return to Moscow put an end to the nianreuvrings for position which bad been going on in bis absence. Point is given to this by the fact that Molotov is given eulogies second only to Stalin, while

Malenkov, who appeared to assume sudden prominence during Stalin’s absence, is given little attention in the party’s manifestos. In a talk broadcast by the 8.8.0. during the week-end, Mr Alexander Wertli said the result of the election could bo taken as a foregone conclusion. ns tbe lists represented the considered choice of the Communist Party. The majority of Russians accepted this as the choice for which they should'register approval. It is expected that Stalin, who heads the list for the Russian Federal Republic, with Moscow as its centre, will make an election speech in which he will survey world affairs.