Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-05

novich had been fred from their
government jobs. Shepilov, who
held no government position,
was not mentioned. 1t had ear
lier been announced that all four
were ousted frcm their Commu-
mist Party posts although not
from the party.
Reports from Polish sources in
Warsaw that Molotov, Malenkov
and Kaganovich had been placed
under house arrest could not be
confirmed in Moscow. The Po-
fish accounts said Shepilov was
still at liberty.
An official announcement said
Khrushchev and Bllganin would
leave Monday for their scheduled
visit to Czechoslovakia. This was
seen as an obvious move to show
that everything in the Kremlin
was under control.
Molotov, one of Stains last
surviving Bolshevik comrades,
had been a First Deputy Premier
and Minister of State Control.
Malenkov, Stains successor as
Premier until KhruShchev
bounced him. was a First Deputy
Premier and Minister of Elec-
trio Power Stations. Kaganovich
was a First Deputy Premier and
recently had been referred to as
Minister Of Building Materials.
A Moscow radio broadcast
said Alexei S. Pavlepko had been
given Malenkov's power station
post. Pavlenko was Malenkov's
predecessor in the job and
served as deputy minister while
Malenkov headed the ministry
"Stern Punishment" Mentioned
In announcing the custer of
the three officials from their
government positions, a Moscow
radio commentator declared his
tory has shown that the stern
est possible punishment" is the
correct way to deal with party
deviationists.
Mikoyan summed up the
sweeping shakeup with the state
ment that the ousted leaders
wanted to change our policy
we did no."
I'VE want peace. friendship
and co-existence," he said,
There Is no change in this
policy"
Mikoyan reiterated the charges
of deviationism and collision
that the party Central Commit
tee already had brought against
the deposed leaders, but did not
offer much elaboration on the
shakeup.
He said First Deputy Premier
Maxim z. Saburov. who was re-
moved without explanation from
the party presidium. sis still a
member Of the Central Commit
tee Of the Communist Party and
probably will be given another
post"
He added that First Deputy
Premier Mikhail G. Pervukhin,
who was removed from the
presidium and dropped to can
didate membership in that ton
policymaking body, was .too
young and too inexperienced. /"
He is in his early SOS.
Mikoyan, Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko and Nikolai
M. Shvernik. newly named menu
Der of the presidium. were the
only Soviet officials at the Amer
lean reception. Last year Bull
ganin, Khrushchev and several
other members of the presidium
attended.
The London Daily Express to-
day quoted Jacob Malik, Soviet
Ambassador to Britain, as saying
the Soviet shakeup had been
completed
Express Columnist william
Hickey said Malik told him at a
dinner in London: There will
be no more changes. I can as
sure you. I was present in Mos
COW when the recently published
changes were announced pri-
vately. I talked to Khrushchev
about them and know"
Polish newspapers spiashed
the news Of the government
custer Of the officials across their
front pages and the government
newspaper zycie Warszawy de-
clared that events in Moscow