RESIGNATION OF MOLOTOV

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27985, 4 June 1956, Page 11

RESIGNATION OF MOLOTOV

“Major Triumph

For Tito”

(N.Z. Press Association— Copyright)

(Rec. 11 p.m.) MOSCOW, June 2. XV estern observers in Moscow regard Mr Molotov’s resignation yesterday as Foreign Minister as a major political triumph for Marshal Tito of Jugoslavia

The Marshal arrived m Moscow this afternoon, less than 24 hours after the announcement that Mr Molotov, who drummed Mm out of the Cominform m 1948, had relinquished his

~K ? vas s ! r ,]' l ® sotov , who > as Foreign Minister, signed the declaration of 1948 expelling Jugoslavia from the Communist family organisation.

The announcement of Mr Molotov’s resignation came over Moscow Radio last night while he was sitting in the Bolshoi Theatre with other top Soviet leaders, including the Premier, Marshal Bulganin, and the Communist Party chief, Mr Khrushchev.

The announcement added that the Supreme Soviet had appointed as his successor Dimitri Shepilov, the 50-year-old "rising star” of the Soviet hierarchy. He has edited the Communist Party newspaper “Pravda” since 1952.