Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-13
Nine Krem|in Youngsters Wait
For Khrushchev's Grip to Slip

chieftain-in other words the gov
ernor-of six different major re-
gionS of the Soviet Union.
Late in 1852 he was made q
member of the party secretariat
in Moscow and a candidate men,
her of the party presidium- polit-
buro by Stain. Fired from these
posts after Stains death. he un.
dertook three major regional as.
signments from Mr.. Khrushchev
in party work before he was
brought back into the Secretariat
and the presidium in 1857.
His exact present assignment
as a party secretary is not known.
ALEXEI KIRICHENKO. former
party chief of the Ukraine, was
born in 1903 and Joined the party
in 1880. He began early as a work.
er on tractors in his native Kher-
son region of the Ukraine, and then
rose into party work. He became
a member of the Khrushchev
political machine in the Ukraine
in 1888 shortly after Mr.. Khru-
shchev took an 1l-year leadership
of that republic.
From 1888 until he Joined the
Khrushchev forces in Moscow as
a party secretary and full member
of the presidium-politburo. he
continually occupied important
party posts in the Ukraine.
FROL KOZLOV, born in 1908
and a party member since 1926, is
now a first deputy premier.
In November 1853 when Mr..
Khrushchev personally conducted
a purge to eliminate Malenkov's
friends from the Leningrad party
organization. Mr.. Kozlov became
its head. He worked in the Central
Committee in Moscow from 1914
to 1947 and subsequently was the
party chief of the Kuibyshev re-
gion.
From l949 on he was in Lenin-
grad. In late 1857 he was named
premier-for a period of khree
months-of the Russian Republic.
but even before that Khrushchev
had named him chief of a special
bureau of the party for the Rus
sian Republic. a position of great
influence. Then on March 81. 1858.
he was made first deputy pre-
mier of the USSR. He is a hand
some. white-haired man of so.
NURITDIN MUKHITDINOv,
born in 1917 and a party member
since 1912. has the distinction Of
being the only native Of Central
Asia ever to be brought into top
party ranks in Russia and the
additional mark of being the
youngest present party secretary
and presidium member.
He rose to prominence in his
own republic of Uzbekistan in
1919 when he became a secretary
of the Uzbek central committee.
There is more than a suspicion
that Mukhitdinov's rapid promo
tons into the Moscow hierarchy
may be due to a desire to show
Asiatic peoples that Asiatics have
political opportunities in Russia.
MIKHAIL SUSLOV is the most
experienced of all the younger
group of Soviet leaders of top
rank. He has been a party secre-
taly for more than 10 years, longer
even than Mr.. Khrushchev. He
has, at one time and another,
been in charge Of party propa-
ganda. and he is regarded as an
expert on theology.
Some Communists in eastern
Europe consider Mr.. Suslov an
unreconStructed Stalinist and re-
gard him with deep suspicion. For
several years he was in charge
of relations with western Com
munist parties and still plays an
active role in this field. Born in
1902 and a party member since
1921. he has spent all his adult
life as a party career man.
There is a question whether
Mr.. Suslov is not perhaps po-
tential rival of Mr.. Khrushchev.
heading a powerful Stalinist fac.
ton in the party which regards
Khrushchev with mistrust. But
in recent months at any rate
there have been no signs Of dis
harmony between the two.