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...newsprint to neutralist newspapers. Premier Bulganin invited Shah Reza Pahlevi and his Queen to Moscow, but the cautious young Shah posponed the visit. Said he last week: "The neutrality and peaceful intentions of the Iranian nation in two world wars did not save our country from aggression." Foreign Minister Molotov thundered back: "The pact ... is inconsistent with the peace and security of the Middle East and runs against the friendly relations between Soviet Russia and Iran...
...each vegetable its own time," says an old Russian proverb, to which latter-day Russians add, "and to every Bolshevik his day of confession." Last week confession day came around for the woodiest old vegetable in the Bolshevik truck garden: Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skriabin, better known by his party name: Molotov (meaning The Hammer). In a letter to Kommunist, top party organ of the Central Committee, First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Molotov, who got into the movement in 1906 at the age of 16, admitted that at the ripe, Red age of 64 he had committed a "theoretically mistaken...
Though less dramatic than the confession (of incompetence) which announced Georgy Malenkov's fall from Premier last February, Molotov's error was the more heinous for being ideological. At that same time Molotov had said: "Side by side with the Soviet Union, where the foundation of a Socialist society has already been built, there are people's democratic countries which have so far taken only the first, though very important, step towards Socialism." Molotov's error lay in the use of one word: foundation. Said he in his confession: "This mistaken for mulation leads...
Foreign diplomats who in recent months have closely watched (and sometimes admired) Molotov's tough, smiling, but guarded performance were not surprised. Since Stalin's death, the order of precedence among the U.S.S.R.'s "collective leaders" has changed subtly against Molotov. His letter of confession was dated Sept. 16-a date between the West German negotiations in Moscow and his visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly, indicating that he was still held in a position of trust. Some diplomats felt that his official resignation was not far off, perhaps after the Big Four foreign...
Though the subject was not remotely on the agenda, Britain's Harold Macmillan abruptly blurted out what was preoccupying the West. If Russia is sincerely trying to ease world tensions, Macmillan demanded of Molotov, why is Russia's satellite Czechoslovakia selling arms to Egypt? Turning on his best wide-eyed look, Molotov professed to know nothing about...