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Died. Georgy Nikolaevich Zarubin, 58, Russian Ambassador to the U.S. from 1952 until last January; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Where he appeared, Western secrets tended to vanish. In 1945, during Zarubin's tenure as first Soviet Ambassador to Canada, Russian Embassy Clerk Igor Gouzenko defected and revealed the existence of a Red spy ring that had vacuumed Canada for strategic information, had shipped samples of pure Uranium 235 off to Moscow. Officially, Zarubin was cleared of complicity in the case. While he served in Washington, the U.S. Government occasionally expelled segments of his staff for espionage...
...ambassador to the U.S. A foreign-trade specialist who persuasively sold the Soviet trade-plus-aid approach as ambassador to India, Envoy Menshikov, 55, is conspicuously suited to the Kremlin's peaceful-coexistence line. In black-and-white contrast to his dour, clam-mouthed predecessor, Georgy Zarubin, he flashes a wide and easy smile, spouts friendly sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice President Nixon and half a dozen State Department officials, stepped...
...series of programs facilitated by recent Washington discussions between Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zarubin and William S. B. Lacey, State Department officer in charge of East-West cultural relations. These discussions have resulted in the lowering of several barriers to cultural exchanges between the United States and the U.S.S.R., but this program is the first to be definitely announced...
...significance of Zarubin's statement yesterday was that this is the first time that both the U. S. and the Russians have been in agreement on the principle of exchange. Until late last winter, the State Department had not been disposed to encourage universities' attempts to secure visiting Russian scholars...
Lincoln White, State Department press secretary, emphasized last night that Zarubin's meeting with Lacey was only an "opening session." He said that the two would confer again next Monday and begin consideration of practical problems...