MOLOTOV TO RETIRE
Rumours About i Successor (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) ‘Rec. 11 p. m .) LONDON, June 2. -J 1 ? 1 ® Soviet Foreign Minister (Mr Molotov) has decided to resign. His successor will be not his first deputy, Mr Andrei Gromyko, but Mr T. editor-in-chief of iravda,” according to rumours circulating in Belgrade last night, reported Belgrade correspondent of the News Chronicle.” Mr Shepilov is now in Jugoslavia as a member of the Soviet Government delegation led by Mr Nikita Khrush-
chev, the Soviet Communist Party First Secretary. Mr Molotov, ’who is 67. was said to be in failing health, the correspondent reported. When Mr Molotov met the Western Foreign Ministers in Vienna recently he is reported to have said: “Gentlemen, we are all getting old. Don’t you think it’s time we gave way to younger men.” The correspondent said this could now be read as a hint of his decision to retire.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27675, 3 June 1955, Page 13
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