Evening star., 1953-03-16
Ma|enkov Sees
Peaceful Action
On All Issues
Says at Inaugural
Thut Problems With
u. S. Can Be Solved
By Eddy Gilmore


MOSCOW, Mar. 16.-The more
than 1000 members of the Su-
preme Soviet unanimously con-
f1rmed Georgi M. Malenkov as
the Soviet Unions Prime Min
lister yesterday and loudly
cheered his inaugural assertion
that all troublesome and un-
solved" issues with the United
States and other countries can
be solved peacefully.
One foreign diplomat termed
the speech to t,...a nations par
lament by Jos Stalin's suc-
cessor almost an offer t. It
down with the United States
and any one else and try to
ease the worlds tension"
GA State Department spokes-
man today indirectly chal-
lenged Soviet Premier Malen-
kov to live up to his peaceful
words by such actions as end
ing the war in Korea and
stopping the shooting down
of peaceful planes over Ger
many.
dincoln White. department
press officer, told reporters
that Malenkov's words "are
received with interest by this
Government. Their true sig
nif1cance, however, must be
determined by the future ac-
tions of the Soviet govern
ment and those under it's
sway"
(Similar views were ex-
pressed by a British Foreign
Office spokesman and by Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Ade-
nauer.)
Stresses Policy Of Peace.
AS in his funeral grafton over
Stalin's bier a week ago, Malen-
kov again stressed a policy of
peace.
"At the present and in the
future" he asserted, there is no
such troublesome or unsolved
question which cannot be solved
by peaceful means"
This, he continued in a specif-
1c reference. applies to the
Soviet Unions relations with all
countries including the United
States.
Not once did Malenkov refer
to "warmongers" or to American
mperialistS.' Both these terms,
formerly so widely applied to ac-
tlvit1es Of United States leaders,
have been absent from pro-
nouncements of Soviet leaders
and the Soviet press since
Stalin'S death.
viii Respect Rights.
Malenkov said his new govern
ment's foreign policies are based
on respect for the rights of
other countries, "Strict adher-
ence to all treaties" signed by
the Soviet Union, and cooper
alton and development of busi-
ness relations with all nations.
The Soviet Union, he went on,
would draw even tighter its links
with the allies, and especially
with Communist China and the
peoples democracies" of East
ern Europe.
The two legislative houses
the Soviet of the Union and
Soviet of Nationalities-met for
only one hour and seven min
utes, then adjourned and headed
for home. During the session
they also confirmed the other
members of Malenkov's regime
named after Stalin's death and
approved a sweeping govern
ment reorganization stream
lining the previous 81 ministries
OOWn 10 only 70.
Nominated by Beria.
Malenkov'S nominate as
prime minister was put before
the delegates by Lavrenti P.
Beria. the new interior minister
and a first deputy prime min
lister. Beria termed Malenkov a
talented pupil of Lenin and a
true comrade in arms of Stain. u
After his speech, Malenkov
listed the new government line
up and changes. The reorgan-
ization, he said, all was planned
while Stain was still alive.
In addition to Beria he desig-
mated Foreign Minister v. M.
Molotov, Defense Minister Mar
shall Nikolai Bulganin and Laza-
rus M. Kaganovich as first dep
uty" prime ministers. A. L
Mikoyan, minister for foreign
and internal trade, was listed
aS "6eY1Iltv YoY.iY,on V,oiyoictny.