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If Mao finds it difficult to get along with Malenkov & Co., then perhaps the course for the West is to make his life with Malenkov not easier, but even more difficult. This was the kind of debate stirring in Washington, London and elsewhere last week. The throes of change from Stalin to pudgy Premier Malenkov would open fresh opportunities, exploitable fissures for the West. Where they would come, what they would be, how they could be breached—these were questions that would beguile, harass and test both worlds, the captive and the free, for a long time to come.