Last week the Moscow censor passed a report that Marshal Georgi Zhukov, head of all Soviet land forces, had been assigned to command the Odessa military district. It was as though Ike Eisenhower had been sent back to San Antonio. The Soviet press did not mention the move, but the world outside erupted with rumors:
Was it part of Russia's war of nerves on Turkey? In 1940 Zhukov led the troops that took over Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Rumania. Odessa is the military district nearest the Dardanelles.
Was the Communist Party "disciplining" the Red Army—the one power in Russia that might...
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