SOVIET POLITICAL POST

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22306, 21 January 1938, Page 11

SOVIET POLITICAL POST

♦ COMMISSAR REMOVED FROM OFFICE MINOR CHANGES IN PEOPLE'S COUNCIL MOSCOW, January 19. The Prime Minister (M. Molotov). 'at a meeting of Parliament, announced that M. Kriicnko had been dismissed from his post in the new Cabinet. In the Soviet Parliament earlier in the week M. Bagrov, a deputy from Baku, attacked M. Krilenko. Commissar of Justice, for not discharging his duties properly, because of too much chess playing and mountaineering. He demanded M. Krilenko's dismissal. The Supreme Council unanimously appointed M. Vyshinsky to the post of Public Prosecutor. M. Molotov was unanimously reelected chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. The rest of the council was also re-elected, with only three important changes. These were the dismissal of Krilenko and the removal of M. Chubar and M. Mikoyan from the Commissarships of Finance and Food. They will be replaced by M. Gilensky and M. Zverev, but will remain vice-chair-men of the council, which urged M. Vyshinsky to redouble efforts to stamp out enemies of the people. M. Molotov denounced certain foreign Consulates "engaged in anti-Soviet spying activities on Soviet territory." He mentioned the closure of some German, Japanese, and Polish Consulates, and also referred to individuals and organisations engaged in anti-Soviet activity in France. He asked how they accorded with the French and Soviet pact. The army representative said that upon M. Stalin's orders the army would "stand like one man to deliver the most crushing blow in history to Fascist aggressors on their own territory."