ADVISER TO MRK.

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29219, 1 June 1960, Page 15

ADVISER TO MRK.

New Role For • Malinovsky? BERLIN, May 30. Russia’s Defence Minister (Marshal Rodion Malinovsky), who “shadowed” Mr Khrushchev at the Paris summit talks, today appeared to be gaining more ground in the Kremlin power pyramid, according to experts on Russian affairs. Reports quoted by British United Press say he will accompany Mr Khrushchev on his forthcoming visit to Austria next month. The Soviet Prime Minister is.due to make an official visit to Vienna on June 30 Russian affairs experts in Berlin consider it noteworthy that Marsha) Malinovsky is to go with him on the trip to a neutral country where neither rocketry nor disarmament is a talking point on the agenda. Some suggestions have even been made outside Russia that the Marshal, in effect, is moving slowly into the position of Mr Anastas Mikoyan, who has been one of Mr Khrushchev’s foremost policy advisers. Last week-end. Mr Khrushchev denied reports that Mr Mikoyan, a Deputy Premier was out of favour. But the denial has met with considerable scepticism in some Western diplomatic quarters, said British United Press. Before accompanying Mr Khrushchev to the summit meeting, Marshal Malinovsky took part in a top-level conference between Army and party representatives in the Kremlin. At that meeting. Marshal Malinovsky was reported to have demanded that Russian preparedness be tightened and increased.