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Taking the Rap. The post-Molotov policy in the satellites and Egypt has been one of Nikita Khrushchev's staggering failures, but apparently it has not yet weakened his hold on the first party secretaryship. Last week the Central Committee, meeting in Moscow, decided that Shepilov should take the rap and sent him back to his secretarial duties after only eight months as Foreign Minister. His successor: Andrei A. Gromyko...
Communist party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev used the same forum--a Soviet Bulganin friendship meeting--to warn of other things. He called for two-fold vigilance...
Just a year ago, in a speech to the 20th Communist congress in Moscow, First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev had this to say about a man he had spent most of his life servilely trying to please...
...firing Khrushchev in favor of ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov, who seems to be huffing and puffing up the ladder since his demotion two years ago. The report has a plausible sound: a prearranged close testing of strength would be a finely calculated hint to the ebullient Nikita to mend his ways, but fast. It would explain the recent reversal of the Khrushchev line, the rewarming of Stalinist slogans for the benefit of Old Guard Communists such as Molotov, and the coolness towards Tito. It would also account for Khrushchev's belated dash down to Budapest (in the pattern...
...this was wonderful self-promotion for Nikita, but it did him no good where it really mattered: in Hungary and Poland. Khrushchev needed Chou's urbane voice, not only to show that he commanded the support of Red China-after the Soviet Union the most powerful of Communist countries-but also as a mediator. In Warsaw (see below) Chou obligingly gave out with Khrushchev's new hard line, but in private Chou was amiable and showed some of hrs earlier friendliness towards the Polish experiment. It was significant that the story about Khrushchev's slim margin...