Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 16, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday october 16, 1964 fall startles West european capitals Bonn special tons the fall of Nikita Khrushchev introduces a dramatic period of uncertainty for Germany and East Ern Europe which May prove comparable to the confused months following the death of Josef Stalin in 1953. The event like so Many in the soviet Union came As a com plete Surprise to West German and diplomatic observers Here. Only thursday afternoon the West German parliament was debating or. Khrushchev s projected visit to Bonn which had been expected to take place next february. And thursday night. When the first unofficial re Peri. Of Iii Khrushchev s resignation were heard a russian embassy official insisted that the soviet government and communist party were still United under or. Khrushchev s leadership. Nevertheless the change in Moscow opens up questions of the highest importance for the european heartland in which the cold War began and in which it has been most tense. Nobody pretends yet to know whether or. Khrushchev has been Over thrown from left or or whether the new collective leadership around communist party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Alexei Kosygin will will seek to accommodate Pek ing on the West. Soviet feelers however it is recalled Here that the death of Stalin and the temporary Ascendancy in mos cow of Georgi Malenkos and the late Lavrenti Beria. Did produce soviet feelers toward a european settlement based on russian withdrawal from East Germany. These feelers Lay behind sir Winston Churchill s famous Call on May 11, 1953, for a meeting at the Summit a Call which the late John Foster Dulles turned Down and which became academic when Beria was arrested some weeks later. Or. Khrushchev later attacked both Beria and or. Malenkos for at tempting to abandon the con quest of socialism in East Ger Many. The new Brezhnev Kosygin team May not be disposed to make any such dramatic offer but it will in the immediate future have to make a number of decisions affecting Central eur Ope which have far reaching repercussions first of All there is the ques Tion of the recent soviet Over Tures to West Germany symbolized by or. Khrushchev s projected visit. Will the new pre Mier seek to take up the invitation. Or will the entire policy approach now lapse the recent measures toward liberalization in East Germany taken with Strong soviet encouragement Are Premier s retirement was forced Paris Kremlin Logiste suspect Leonid Brezhnev . Party Secretary Alexei Kosygin takes Over As Premier by Waverly Root Paris special tons the first hard news Paris received of what looks to observers Here like Nikita Khrushchev s Dis Grace was delivered against the incongruous background of a so Viet embassy cocktail party Given in Honor of visiting presidium members invited to this country by French parliamentarians. News Heit Piave meal but two main reactions Are immediately observable. The first is that or. Khrushchev s now official disappearance from soviet leadership smacks less of a voluntary resignation for reasons of health than of a forced retirement. One theory Here is that the health motive is genuine but that or. Khrushchev refused advice to withdraw on his own initiative and therefore had to be persuaded. That his Depar Ture however effected is of the nature of a disgrace is argued from a number of details. Pictures Down one is the removal of his Pic Tures from Public places an other is the omission of his name from various official list Ings lately a third is the immediate removal of or. Khrushchev s son in Law Alexei Andzhu Bel from the Editorship of Prav make much difference on pre sent indications. This is based on the theory that his two successors Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin Are identified with the same policies As or. Khrushchev. More to go however there Are rumours Here that other important departures and shifts in the so Viet Hierarchy May Collow this might put or. Jtj Ferent face on the situation. It is suggested that the new team May prove to be As transitory As was or. Malenkos. One theory is that they May quickly give place to Mikhail Suslov who is believed to have presided Over thursday s presidium meeting which apparently decided or accepted the resignation of or. Khrushchev. It i.5 considered Only an out Side possibility that or. Khrushchev was sacrificed to save International communist Unity by w the or . Consistently attacking Khrushchev personally. The Washington Post split Over Bonn by Flora Lewis London special tons russian officials apparently knew of trouble in the Kremlin last week. On saturday a soviet source in London told a Westerner privately that there had been a grave split in the Kremlin Over Nikita Khrushchev s plan to visit West Germany Early next year. According to this russian. Or. Khrushchev s son in Law Izvestia editor Alexsi adz Hubei was vigorously advocating the visit and foreign minister Andrei Gromyko was furiously opposing generally regarded As a major component of this policy. Second there is the question j planning stressed Vancouver lib i eral government prefers a bark to a bite in its economic plan says Jack Davis parliamentary Secretary to prime min ister Pearson. No direct controls for the Liberal my for coast-Capi-1 Lano told a kiwanis club meet ing thursday. No penalties Only opportune or. Davis said government policy is to influence private in j Temprise by clearly stating Over j and Over its concept of National objectives. He said planning is a Neces sity on a National scale but it i must be carried out in human. Not monetary terms. Of the International communist meeting called by Moscow for dec. 15, at which or. Khrushchev apparently hoped to Ham Mer out a common stand against the chinese. Will the new leadership attempt now to conciliate peking or to make a More Radi Cal break on this question hinged the internal politics of several East european communist where Independence minded ele ments have capitalized in recent years on the unsettled state of sino soviet relations. There is also the unique but usually symptomatic Case of Yugoslavia where marshal Tito had both sup ported or. Khrushchev consistently and been the most out spoken critic of peking. Third there is the question of economic integration in East Ern Europe represented organizationally by com econ and the romanian revolt against or. Khrushchev s attempt to achieve a bloc wide socialist division of since com econ and its subsidiary committees and groups Are in almost continuous session and East european National economic plans have All been dovetailed to some extent with com econ projects develop ments in this Field May Well offer the first solid indications As to the policy of the new soviet leadership. The Washington Post changes unlikely in foreign policy London special tons a usually Well informed soviet Cor respondent Here predicted that any policy shifts resulting from thursday s Kremlin changes would be Ffitch. More in internal soviet affairs especially a Civ comics than in foreign affairs. This source predicted that there would be two important changes in foreign policy. Alexi Kosygin the now Premier is known in Russia As a computer brain economist a particularly Brilliant Technocrat rather than a policy maker. Leonid Brezhnev the new first Secretary of the communist party has been particularly close to Nikita Khrushchev and the source said he could be expected to follow the thru set Chev line. At the time of his appointment to the Central committee or. Brezhnev was tipped As the major candidate being As or. Khrushchev s successor. The Washington Post a fourth is the wording i it. Gromyko was said to in French translation but or. Khrushchev that cow s official translation of be Louici quit if the soviet Leader the official announcement that or. Khrushchev had been liberated from his functions. There s something sinister about that word Libere a went to Bonn. The source said or. Gromyko regarded or. And Hubei As a bad Bourgeois in fluence on Khrushchev. The Kremlin fight Over the a French journalist remarked to proach to West Germany was said sets precedent William the conqueror was crowned King of England in 1066 at Westminster Abbey a prac Tice that has been continued by English monarchs Ever since. Me last night. If or. Khrushchev did leave1 by his own decision the French Point out he must have made up his mind very quickly. Last monday French minister for scientific research Gaston Palewski called on him at his Black sea vacation resort and had his visit Cut Short abruptly because or. Khrushchev explained he had to hurry Back to Moscow and arrange the recep Tion for the three soviet Astro nauts. Not Only did he fail to appear for this event but he did not even Send messages of congratulations to them As had been his invariable custom. This started rumours Here that he was in bad health. The first reaction concerning the effect or. Khrushchev s Dis appearance May have on soviet relations is that it will not o reflect a wider dispute on the whole policy of East West detente and the Effort to secure Russia s Western front. One indication of the Way things went came tuesday with the so Viet expression of regrets to Bonn Over a Mustard Gas attack on a West German anti microphone technician in. Moscow. At first the russians had rejected the Bonn protest. But West Germany made it Clear that plans for or. Khrushchev s visit could not go ahead until there had been some kind of satisfactory reply from Moscow on the Inci Dent. For almost a month the rus sians said nothing. Then suddenly a note arrived in Bonn which was not quite an apology but which went far enough to satisfy the West German government. That removed the obstacle to a formal invitation to or. Khrushchev from the West German Point of View. It was taken As a firm confirmation from Moscow that or. Khrushchev was deter mined to make the trip. 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