REMOVED FROM OFFICE
SOVIET PREMIER’S WIFE COMMISSAR OF FISH MOSCOW, Dec. 1. The wife of the Soviet Premier and Foreign Minister, M. Molotov, first and only woman member of the Soviet Cabinet, was removed yesterday but • informed quarters insisted that her removal was without political or other special significance. M. Molotov’s wife, Paulina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina, bears a strong resemblance to the Duchess of Windsor and for a number of years has been classed as one of the most attractive women in Soviet official life. After serving for five years as head of the Soviet Cosmetic Trust and organising the mass production of lipstick and rougo for the hitherto rougeless Soviet working women, she was named last January to the Council of People’s Commissars as Commissar for the Fish Industry. Now, it is explained, Mme. Molotov will be given another Government post, but it was not revealed what new position she would occupy.
Like other active Russian women, Mme. Molotov never has exploited orofessionally her relationship to the Premier and Foreign Commissar. Her married name was not mentioned even when she was elected to the nation’s Supreme Soviet (Council) from her native city of Rostov nearly two year.: ago.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20139, 8 January 1940, Page 2
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