RED ARMY CHIEF
Sokolovsky To Retire?
(Rec. 9 p.m.) MOSCOW, May 2. Western military attaches who attended the Red Square parade yesterday in Moscow said that Marshal Matvei Zakharov, fo’mer commander of Russian troops in East Germany, apparently had been appointed Chief of the General Staff, succeeding Marshal Sokolovsky, Chief of the General Staff since 1952, British United Press said. Western military attaches watching the parade were greeted for the first time by Marshal Zakharov instead of by Marshal Sokolovsky Marshal Sokolovsky, aged 63. has been reported to be in failing health, and it is presumed he will retire.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29194, 3 May 1960, Page 15
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