BULGANIN’S NEW JOB

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28551, 2 April 1958, Page 7

BULGANIN’S NEW JOB

Effect Of Soviet Changes (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, March 31. The former Soviet Premier, Marshal Bulganin, was today reappointed to a job he held 20 years ago and can no longer be expected to occupy a seat in the Soviet inner cabinet. Marshal Bulganin was reappointed chairman of the Soviet State Bank—the Gosbank. His new post was announced by Mr Khrushchev, who took over as Soviet Premier last week. Mr Khrushchev, who is also First Secretary of the Communist Party, announced Marshal Bulganin’s appointment simultaneously with the announcement of his new Cabinet to a joint session of the two Houses of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) in the Kremlin. Marshal Bulganin replaces Mr V. F Popov in a job which presumably means that he retains a seat in the Council of Ministers, or Cabinet, since the chairman of the Gosbank normally carries Ministerial status. But Marshal Bulganin can no longer be expected to occupy a seat in the Soviet “inner Cabinet" which is now restricted to seven members—Mr Khrushchev and his six deputies. His new Government status must also arouse questions on his party status. Officially he remains a member of the 15-man presidium of the Soviet Communist Party, the party’s highest policy-making group. But it would be contrary to party practice to retain in such a high Dost a member who Is merely chairman of the Gosbank. Mr Frol Kozlov, aged 80, a full member of the presidium, joins Mr Anastas Mikoyan as First Deputy Premier. Mr Khrushchev’s main lieutenants in the new Government are the two First Deputy Premiers. Mr Kozlov and Mr Mikoyan and four Deputy Premiers: Messrs Josif Kuzmin, Dimitri Ustinov, Mr Zasiadko and M. Kosygin. Messrs Kuzmin and Ustinov were formerly Deputy Premiers. Members of the old Bulganin Government reappointed to their former posts included General Ivan Serov, chairman of the State Committee of Security and Mr N. P Dudorov, Minister of the Interior. Mr Kozlov is one of the “new generation” of Communists. He has been relieved of his post as Premier of the Russian Federation after his new appointment today. The new Premier of the Federation is Mr Dmitri Stepanovich Polyanzki. First Secretary of the Krasnodar Provincial Committee of the Communist Party, according to the Soviet news agency, Tass. The Supreme Soviet ended its session later today.