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mates. He confessed to that.
too, Pravda said.
The principal charge laid
Against Marshal Zhukov by the
party was his fight against
political control of the armed
forces.
This demonstrated "insuffi-
cient party spirit" and "rudely
violated the feminist party
principle for direction Of the
armed forces"
1.-The Central Committee has
established that the cult of
Comrade zhukov's personality
was cultivated in the Soviet
Army with his personal partid-
patton" a party resolution
made public tonight said.
with the help Of sycophants
and flatterers, he was praised
to the sky in lectures and re-
ports, in articles, films and
pamphlets, and his person and
role in the great patriotic War
were over-glorified."
Thus was the popular World
War II hero of Berlin thorough
ly downgraded. There was no
hint as to what his future would
be. He was dismissed as defense
minister a week ago today and
tonight's announcement said
only that the party secretariat
had been instructed to find
him other work. The party
chieftain., Nikita Khrushchev
said last Tuesday that job
would fit the 60-year-old mar
shal's training and experience.
Adoption Unanimous
The formal announcement
said the resolution condemning
Marshal Zhukov had been
adopted unanimously" by
members and candidate mem
beers of the Central Committee.
The resolution said Marshal
Zhukov's conceit caused him to
consider himself "a single hero
Of all victories achieved by our
people and their armed forces
under the leadership Of the
Communist Party"
It followed up the charge
that he violated the feminist
principle for party control Of
the armed forces by saying:
Because of this Zhukov did
not fulfill the trust placed in
him by the party. He turned
out to be a politically bankrupt
representative with a tendency
to adventurism in his under
standing and evaluation of the
most important problems Of
foreign policy in the Soviet
Union as well as his direction
Of the Ministry Of Defense"
The communique said the
party Central Committee met
late in October and discussed
the improvement Of party and
political work in the Soviet
Army and Navy. Then 1t added:
1.-THE plenary meeting adopted
q resolution which was made
public today. The plenary meet
ing has excluded Georgi K.
Zhukov from membership of
the Presidium of the Central
Committee and from the Gen.
trail Committee of the CPSU
Communist Party Of the So
Wet Union"
Reached Peak for Soldier
Marshal Zhukov was the first
active professional soldier ever
elected to the Presidium, the
former Politburo and the seat
of power in Russia. He reached
that peak only last June.
1t was the second major turn
over in the Kremlin in four
months and Marshal Zhukov,
who led the rescue of Stain
grad and captured Berlin, thus
goes the way Of three other
Presidium members. In July,
former Premiers Georgi Malen-
kov and v. M. Molotov and old
Bolshevik Lazar Kaganovich
were removed and subsequently
assigned to minor jobs far from
Moscow.
The Zhukov communicate was
q re-assertion of the Commu-
mist Party's rigid control over
the massive Red army. 1t ap-
peared almost timed to COIN
eide with the arrival of Mao
Tze-tung, ruler of Red China.
Without mentioning the Zhu-
kov case. Premier Mao greeted
Soviet leaders at the airport
with a reaff1rmation Of China's
solidarity with the Soviet Un-
ion. declaring there is no
power on earth to divide us"
Mr.. Mao called Mr.. Khru-
shchev. Premier Nikolai Bull
ganin and President Klementi
Y. Voroshilov Dear Comrades. a."
The announcement also
cleared the atmosphere for the
40th anniversary celebration on
November 7 of the Bolshevik
Revolution. when the Soviet
Union is expected to parade its
latest weapons of the atomic
age and perhaps announce
some spectacular new achieve
ment in science.
Mao Backs Russia
Mr.. Mao said on his arrival
China stands strongly behind
the Soviet Union land its warn
ing to the United States against
American interference in the
Middle East"
Persistent efforts of Amer
lean aggressors against other
peoples and against the inde-
pendence of Syria threaten a
third world war;" Mr.. Mao de-
clared. I'VE. the Soviet Union
and China, will always stand
together in our struggle for
neacp throiiohnut tho World