New Job For Zhukov?
(Rec. 8.30 p.m.) PARIS, Sept. 18. The French newspaper ‘‘Aurore” said today that Mr Khrushchev might appoint the former Russian Defence Minister, Marshal Zhukov, as the Russian Ambassador to Washington within the next few days. Marshal Zhukov was dismissed from his post as Minister of Defence and removed from the Central Committee of the Communist Party in November, 1957, and now lives in retirement in Moscow.
Marshal Zhukov and President Eisenhower were on very friendly terms after they met in Berlin in 1945.
"Aurore” said: “According to information we give here with the greatest reservations, since it is obviously impossible to verify, the master of the Kremlin may have decided to name Marshal Zhukov very soon as Ambassador to Washington or as Russia’s representative to the United Nations at New York. “Has Khrushchev decided to make a theatrical gesture before the end of his trip to America? Nothing seems impossible coming from a man who enjoys creating a sensation and loves publicity,” it said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29004, 19 September 1959, Page 13
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