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Show Vie for Red Leadership From behind the veil closing off Russia from the outside world, come reports of a strenuous tug-of-war between be-tween militarists and politicians for succession to the premiership of the ailing ail-ing Josef Stalin. Following mention of Gen! Georgi Zhukov and Foreign Commissar Vyache slav Molotov for the post, the name of : Gen. Andrei Zhdanov popped into the news. A happy combination of militarist militar-ist and politician, Zhdanov long has Gen. Zhdanov (left) and Stalin. been a trusted adviser to Stalin, havtng worked his way up in the ranks alter joining the Communist party upon his graduation from St. Petersburg university uni-versity at 17. Wielding personal control over the vital Leningrad area, embracing the Baltic states, Zhdanov was known to have influenced Stalin in grabbing eastern Poland and turning down a British alliance in 1939 to slop Hitler, thus giving the fuehrer the go-signal for his attack on the Western powers and the start of World War II. GERMANY: Foresee Trouble Because of French opposition to establishing a central administration administra-tion for Germany until the Big Four take up the question of internationalizing internation-alizing the Ruhr and detaching the Rhineland from the Reich, the economic eco-nomic situation in the country may grow increasingly grave and cause the occupying powers serious trouble this winter, British Field Marshal Montgomery declared. While the Germans presently are docile and well-behaved, Montgomery Mont-gomery said, it is difficult to estimate esti-mate what effect food and fuel shortages will have upon them during dur-ing the rigorous central European winter. In view of the growing necessity for co-ordinating the various occupation occu-pation zones to facilitate a transfer trans-fer of materials and services and restore essential industry and agriculture, agri-culture, the U. S., Britain and Russia Rus-sia are prepared to work for integration inte-gration of their districts in case of continued French resistance to a central administration. . s ' PREFER VETS: Veteran placements in the federal civil service, including both ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen, totaled to-taled 95,000 for the first six months of 1945, an average of approximately approximate-ly 16,000 placements a month, it was reported. During the same six-month period more than 1,900 widows of World War II veterans and wives of disabled dis-abled veterans were hired along with 760 widows of World War I veterans vet-erans and wives of disabled World War I veterans. |
