IN CONFIDENCE
The obvious explanation of Malenkov's fall from power, the Daily Telegraph's expert considered, was probably the correct one : 'The Soviet army have won the battle for power in the Kremlin.' Not so, thought The Times: Bulganin, a leader explained, is not primarily a soldier: 'he remains the party man and the administrator.' The Manchester Guardian's cor- respondent preferred to believe that Malenkov might not be finished, after all; the real significance of the affair might be that 'the holders of policies now ostensibly defeated are not only alive, but kicking.' There are other interpretations of the events in Russia that would be as plausible and as impossible to refute. In the circumstances, the sensible course is to echo Senator Milliken, who confessed, 'I don't know what it means. I don't attend their party conferences, and I am not in their confidence.'
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