A Spectator's Notebook
WHEN Iti.T.GANIN was exiled to Stavropol earlier this year • true that Bulganin was ill and that Stavropol has a health connection of sorts, in that about a hundred miles away from it there are a number of spas with therapeutic springs for the treatment of diseases— though not Bulganin's. But even Moscow did not make this excuse for the demotion, as it has been known to do on previous occasions. Now that his fall has been publicly confirmed, I sup- pose we will be asked to sympathise with the poor fellow. His beard, after all, waggled so bene- ficently; surely he couldn't be a villain? Sym- pathy, it seems to me, is wasted on the former OGPU agent, the beneficiary and supporter of the Yezhov massacres, the organiser of the betrayal of the Warsaw Rising, the man who brought the terror to Poland—because he has been condemned to endure provincial tedium in • a well-paid sinecure!
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