Mr Molotov Banished To Outer Mongolia

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28371, 2 September 1957, Page 11

Mr Molotov Banished To Outer Mongolia

(flee. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 1. Mr Molotov, Russia’s deposed foreign minister, has been banished to Mongolia. He has been appointed the Ambassador there —3000 miles from Moscow. A Moscow announcement last night said that Mr Molotov would be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Last month, Mr Molotov, who is 67 and was Foreign Minister for 22 years, was stripped of his Government and party posts. The “Daily Express” said the job would take the “inscrutable intriguer” to the point of no return—Ulan Bator. Mongolia’s capital. It was almost completely cut off from civilisation—a big blow to the man who once controlled the whole of the Russian diplomatic service. The ..lotygolian Peoples* Republic (formerly Outer Mongolia) U a mountainous state sandwiched

between Asiatic Russia and Communist China. Its capital, Ulan Bator, is roughly 3000 miles from Moscow and about 800 miles north of Peking. Mongolia was proclaimed a People’s Republic in 1924. At one time a Chinese province, it was under Russian protection between 1912 and 1919., “The appointment put Mr Molotov even lower than babykissing Mr Malenkov, who last month was made manager of a power station on the Mongolian border,” the “Daily Express” Scftd. Purged with Mr Molotov and Mr Malenkov for “anti-party activities” was Mr Lazar Kaganovich. A Reuter report trom Moscow said that it was reported he was managing a cement works in Sverdlovsk, about 1000 miles east of Moscow. The fate of Mr Shepliov, who

was alleged to have sided with the trio, and who succeeded Mr Molotov as Foreign Minister before Mr Andrei Gromyko received the post, is unknown.