"THE BIG MYSTERY"
World Discusses Moscow
Ministerial
Changes
CONFLICTING OPINIONS
London, March 5.
Opinion is hardoning in London that the replacement of M. Molotov by M. Vyshinsky as Soviet Foreign Minister is a matter of internal Soviet organisation rather than any sensational dis- missal of M. Molotov.
Failure Of Soviet Policy
London. Maan B
Mr Richard Ceman Labus Member of Parlantes, el lat edit: the-
"Sunday that the
appokritinent
total M
Vyshinsky as Foreign Ministry In place of M. Molotov in as miston of the failure of Ethi Jolley in Europe
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JA Foreign Office spokesman declined to make any official comment, but it is clear that British officials are not hurrying to the conclastorr that M. Molotov has been dismissed, or that a fun- damental change in Soviet foreign policy is about to take place.
The fact that M. Mikoyan, the Foreign Trade Minis- ter, has also been replaced suggest that these two Elder Statesman, always regarded as trust- ed collaborators of Generalissimo Stalin, will оп the formation of Politburo
concentrate
policy.
To do this, they would have r to hand over day-to-day work
their Ministries to subordin ate statesinen.
Some Brith students of Soyhd
inclamat that The whatite may be samply am autm- On this adiative reorganisalirapy. inden pertation, M. Molotow and M. Malkovati have been piambieri, nli
late.
That far.
By being rheved of depar Denmark well as Norway matul clities, they will have 4iscussing the Aliante Paet p Ibarra time for poly-minking at humiliating defeat for Buressa Nu] the highest leved
wonder the Kremlin deeliasd was the to change
パ
"But the appointment of 3 Vyshinsky does not men Russa will andelenly become parla
tory.
ahown him."
"He will remain an adversaty. But instead of Molutay's mulish obstinacy we may expect more opportunist dashing methards," Reuter,
The two Eiler Statesmen will
at he nhle to take some of the stein from Generalissimo Stalin, Who will in 70 this your.
Lake Success: Seasoned United Nations diplomats tak? the news to indicate that the Soviet policy towards the West is hardening. M. Molotov's re tention of the Deputy Premier. ship Interpreted to mean that he may be laking over more of Generalissime Stalin's duties. Paris: Most responsabile uhiser.
vers exppet a Soviet attempt at a compromise with the West, though the moderate newspaper "Figaro" sees no read difference between M. Molotov mad M. Vyshinsky. It deseribes the Kremila largely bust.
move a
The Communist "Humanite“ and most left wing newspapers give the news without comment.
but, la Berlin: Dr. Ferdinand Friedens-
11. Vyshinsky could hardly have amed influence at M. Molotoy's expelyse it Mosenw, since he host rate! been 151 Moscow
A Riddle
lations."
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949.
Andrel Vyshinsky, who re. places M. Molotov na Stalin's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.
Merely A Change In Tactics?
the
Gromyko Now Chief Deputy Minister
Moscow, March 6,
The Boylet Council of Ministers has appointed M. Andral Gromyke as First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tam, the Boviet omcial news agency, announced tonight.
M. Gromyko thus fills the post vacated by M. Vyshinsky, whose appointment as Foreign Minister was announced fast night. The appointment of M. Gromyko was announced in a Tem mesexge and almost simultaneously by Moscow Radio for the Soviet provincial pross 1 www broadcast
dictation speed in a single sentence of 11 worde..
M. Gromyko has, like M. Vyshinsky, come prominently before the public by resean of his speeches at the Security Council, Dealdes acting as the chief Soviet delegate to the United Nations on many occasions, he was also one of the So- viet Union's Deputy Foreign Ministers, but now becomes the chief of these.
M. Gromyke was appointed Soviet ·Ambassador to the United States in succession to M. Litvinov in August, 1943, and held this post until April,' 1946-Router.
RUSSIAN POLICY STILL THE SAME, PAPER'S WARNING
New York, March 6.
As long as the Communist dictatorship romains it will be by nature an international conspiracy of tyranny, threatening the liberties and peace. of the world.
This comment on the Moscow changes appears in
the Scripps-Howard press today,
"To read into this shake-up a change in basle policy is to con- fuse the purpose and method of Communist strategy and tactles. Whether the removal of Molotov
as Foreign Minister and Mikoyan as Foreign Trade Minister pre- sages now tneties remains to be sren.
"For several months there have been slams of the fallure of cur-
BRITAIN'S ARCTIC WEATHER
London, March 5.
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Pion, failed to drive the Allies Gut of Berlin and the Ruhr, failed end. lo conquer Greece
or frighten the grip of a cold spell, much of already in Prague, March 5. "Vyshinsky has
Turkey or penetrale Iran, and Czechoslovakia. On its face, his bor. "Western" Deputy Lord Well-informed Czechoslovak failed to fasten Communism on the North and West was today unt ad cutstanding tigre dite appointment to the Foreign Min-Mayor of Berlin, saki: "We Ber-sources said today that the ap-
France or Italy,
blanketed
keted by snow. Some United both in diplo.
stpy would indicate a lowering liners. fervently hope that M.pointment
"It had the opposite effects of
Saturday of Mr. Andrei macy and debate,
of the status of that Ministry Molotov's removal will open
a Vyshinsky as the Soviet Foreign democracies, of forcing a Wes-
awakening and consolidating the matches and horse races had to rather than promotion for M. Vy new phase in Russo-German re- Minister probably indicates a
be abandoned, slinky.
In Scotland snow was report- change in tactics rather than a an Atlantic pact.
tern European defence union and]
ed from many areas, with bliz- change in Personal Clash?
basic Soviet! "Nevertheless, this foreign policy.
fogleazards in some. In Aberdeenshite.. Casa for A shift
blizzards halted the thrashing of to
milder Vienna: East European diplo-
tactica-of which One Czechoslovak official said:
[barley for the
whisky distilling. rocant mats are quoted in
Vienna as "It is quite
Stalin
Heavy snow fell in Lancashire possible that Mr.
peace offensive saying that the changes were not Vyshinsky
was a posalbta faalar-does not
and the Lake District, is more
thickly unexpected and that M. Molotov carry out foreign policy in the sulted to Vyshinsky and M.
have been near future."
ground, deadly rivals. The affair is sald to be related to a wide cleavage bused rather on personalities than on policies;
SINGAPORE'S DEATH RATE
Singapore, March 6.
in 1947 to 13.45 last year.
Infant mortality fell from 97.60 per thousand in 1947 to 90.10 last year.
Czechoslovak quarters, includ- ing minor officials of the Com- munist Party, appear to have been taken as much by surprise As Western diplomats.
phony
necessarily mean period of blanketing the mountains and
temporary Soviet retreat.
War Preparation?
more
high
Italy's normally "sunny South" continued to shiver with intense cold today,
Messina in Sicily had -it heaviest snowfall since 1911.
A train is reported blocked in a snowdrift near Leooe.
.
Similarly, there has been no Indication that M. Menshikov carcled any such weight In the Inner Councils as to allow him any chance of busting M. M1. Коуап. On the contrary, the evidence was that M. Mikoyan carried great weight.
"It might mean even London observers feel that the
desperate tactics preparatory to The death rate for Singapore form of the announcement from
war before the West has time to in 1948 was the lowest ever re- Moscow as well as its timing, Vatican City: Official Vatican
perfect its democratic defenses. corded. It dropped from 14.30, might have been calculated to circles maintain the utmost re- The man in the street in Pra-
"Far more important than any krep foreign opinion guessing. serve, Some quarters think M.
Lue
learned nothing of the change temporary shift in foreign tactics A1 a time when the conclusion Vyshinsky may attempt to lessen through morning newspapers Is the question of internal Krem- Snow, unknown in living f the Atlantic Union and the the general tension and that the since the Soviet Tass news in power, During all these years' memory in Malta, has fal formation of a West German Gov-change does not necessarily mean agency announcement did not Stalla has kept Molotov as second. len twice on the Island thle The Deputy President. W. L. ernment are imminent. Moscow un increase in Russia's Intran- come in time to catch the final in command and therefore as a week-on Thursday and to. Blythe, reported to the City might well wish to keep world sigent attitude towards the West. editions.
potential successor.
day. Comissioners that Singapore was opinion on tenterhooks by offer-
In Budapest, officials flatly re-
" Molotov should be deposca Trees and roads were white, anguinely free of dangerous and in a riddle, carrying possibly a Rome: Italian reaction is mild-fuse to comment and the news from that position, it would in- but only momentarily. infectious diseases. There was change of policy.
ly optimistic. Political eireles was carried in afternoon news dicate high-level break in the About 1,000 people have been also a marked improvement In One possible advantage of M. connect the changes with the nd-papers. No reason is given for hleratchy, of internal weakness evacuated from their homes the standard of cleanlines.-As-Vyshinky's appointment Is that hesion of Norway and Denmark withholding Ls publication and crisis. But there is no indica-flooded by the swollen sociated Press.
he has so far not been personal- to the Atlantic Pact-Reuter. United Press.
tion of that yet."-United Press. River in Iowa. le involvedt In the negotiations between the Soviet Union and the Western temocracies over Berin Some fells who attended the fast session of the United Nations in Paris believe that M. Vyshin- sky favoured a settlement of the Berlin crisis,
That COUGH
If, as result of the resolute attitute of the Western
powers
and the maintenance of the air-
CLAIMS HE CAN PRODUCE
LIVING 'MISSING LINK'
Munich March 5. 1. After 25 years of cross-breeding
lift, Moscow decided it is to her Heinrich Heck, director of the advantage to come to some tem-Munich Zon, said today that he porary settlement over Berlin, it can produce a living "missing might be easier for M. Vyshinsky link" if he tries. Han for M. Molotov to handle the change in policy.
Wait And See
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experiments in evolution in re- verse, Heck said he has turned out animals which Havo been extinct for 300 years:
can
He believes the process be carried back through time to produce prehistòric, creatures.
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Before wartime wiped out scores animals, Heck said he WAS
Boyer
A third of the Missouri Valley (population 4,000) was flooded when the river burst through a dyke East of the town.
Snow was talling tonight h London and over a large area of England-Reuler,
TOO FAST FOR LOVER'S LANE
Thames Ditton, March 6. Thames Ditton Church, which
within a generation or two of producing an extinct South owns a footpath called Lover's African quagga, a partly striped Lane, has decided to close it. forerunner of the zebra and The Rev. H. R. Wilds, Vicar, the donkey.
male no objection to the lovers.
He said It is much easier to But he said: "Cyclists have turn- "A living example of the mis-breed back to the original formed Laver's Lane into a race- sing link can be produced it we than create a new strain.
track."-Associated Press. want to do it,” he declared.
However, he does not think be produce the missing
To prove his theories, Heck will try to pointed to his herd of tarpans, link after all, which the books describe as a long-extinct wild forest horse of the mess modern man has got Russia.
Only In Russla itself Is the change "nek-page now." The Radio Announcement, and wiched late last night into the routine dictation speed broad on the United States, to answer cast, was lanored by today's with a middle enurse policy news bulletins and given two other than compromise or war. short sentences at the end of Mr. Sayre. member of the the fifth.
United States mission to the
"It would not be a solution, toi
himself into," he states, Mr. Francis B. Sayre, predict-tailed and short-maned, and cor-ing back to
They are putty-coloured, stub- "One thing we learn in breed- original types is that Russia will turn on the respond to old etchings and writ- that fighting is characteristic of heat as a result of its Foreign ten descriptions of the breed. all living things."-United Press. Ministry shake-up, today called
All Soviel papers carry only the United Nations in the Trusteeship announcement on Council, outlined n four-point official
foreign polley programme of the
their back pages.
In London, the general attitude | United States.
to what is described as "the big The programme included: đa- mystery," is one of watchful wait- | velopment of United Nations sup- ing with frequent suggestions that port of the European Recovery now Russian moves are to be ex-Programme and the Weslern pected.
European Union, an effective
Reuter reports the following re- North Atlantic security pact and action from world centres:
aggressive action to spread the Washington: Three possible basic principles of human free- reasons for the change are put dom. forward in diplomatic circles: that He said that since the end of M. Molotoy has been promoted to the war half a billion people in take over some of Generalissimo 12 countries have been subjugat- Stalin's tasks, that ill health hased by Russian methods of terror- forced him to retire, or that he Ism and fear.-United Press. has been removed because of his intransigent
to opposition' settlement with the United
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peace States.
American official quarters and party leaders decline, direct com- ment. There is some speculation in Congressional circies that Rus-
sla might be preparing some mill-
SILENT ZONES
A FAILURE
Singapore, March 8.
A campaign ban the sounding move, possibly towards of motorcar horna failed in Sing Scandinavia,
tary
apore.
New York: Most correspon- The City. Commissioners decided dents predict that the game will that enforcement would, be too
the tactics much a strain on police officials.—,
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