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...penetrate the Middle East. Martial law will be lifted, he said, "when we see that Communism-or, really, Moscow-is going to stop creating troubles among our neighboring countries. I don't believe Moscow is going to stop creating disturbances, so we must be careful not to allow Shepilov, Khrushchev and others to deal with our safety, our policy." As-Said was riding high: months ago he was isolated, the only Arab signer of the pro-Western Baghdad Pact; now his rivals in Syria and Egypt were the ones isolated...
Worm-eaten Met. So the younger generation would not get any too-daring ideas, former Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov, now Central Committee secretary, appeared to remind everyone of the "irreconcilable struggle against degrading musical art of the capitalist world." Shepilov praised "comradely controversy" and "respect for different views," but he also insisted that the "fundamental esthetic principles" of the Zhdanov decree are "immutable." He wound up the congress with a surefire blast at the West. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, he remarked, is housed in an "old, dirty, worm-eaten, leaky building," dependent upon artists from West Germany, Italy...
...think it would be better," he added, "to have Nasser and Ben Gurion sit down together than to have Shepilov or America or England fish into the matter...
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...