NEW POLITBUROCRATS?

In recent weeks the Soviet press, describing honorary occasions, has repeatedly printed the names of three men at the bottom of an unvarying list of fifteen top Russians--the others being the twelve known members of Russia's Politburo, headed by Stalin. Nos. 13,14 and 15, who may soon be announced as Politburocrats, are: Mikhail Suslov, 49, newly appointed editor of Pravda, he travels in Europe on Cominform errands. Panteleimon Ponomarenlco, 49, also a member of the party secretariat; chief food stockpiler; former Premier of his native White Russia and billiard champion there. Matvey Shkiryatov, 68, Old Bolshevik (joined in 1906); for 30 years Stalin's man on the Party Control Commission; Trotsky called him "slightly drunken."

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