Word: shepilov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tito. The fact that the Soviet leaders were willing to sidetrack Molotov after years of service showed that they attached much importance to winning back Tito. The man they pushed forward in Molotov's place was a burly, bushy-haired fellow with a mobile face, Dmitry T. Shepilov, Central Committee secretary and Pravda editor...
...Shepilov's one claim to international fame at this point was to have traveled the Middle East, presumably only as Pravda editor, and there to have sold President Nasser on the big buildup of Soviet arms in Egypt. Though lionlike in aspect, Shepilov was a mild man and an appropriate mouthpiece for the soft words of coexistence with which the Soviet leaders were then screening their far-flung operations. The reason for the great play for Tito only became obvious later: they wanted to use him to help dispel the trouble that, sooner than they expected, exploded in Hungary...
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...
...circle of Kremlin leadership these days: they make the faces, but they do not make the policies. As if to underline this fact, and incidentally to acknowledge the abruptness of the change of ministers, the Kremlin announced that the "definitive" foreign-policy speech made four days earlier by Shepilov was still definitive, even though he had already lost...
...regime could be rehearsed in a new Hungarian dance routine: soft lights to hide the scars, schmalzy music to lull the world's suspicions. At the little marionette's elbow in Moscow were such big-time choreographers as Khrushchev, Premier Bulganin, First Deputy Premier Mikoyan, Foreign Minister Shepilov, and Red China's Chou Enlai. Before the act could be tried out, there were rude noises from the audience back in Budapest...