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...More Promotions. Clearly, Khrushchev planned to kick Zhukov upstairs to some such post as Deputy Premier, thus depriving him of control of the armed forces but at the same time avoiding the risk of a public showdown. Communist newspapers in Europe blossomed out with obviously inspired stories that the marshal was slated for "an important new post." On the afternoon of Zhukov's return to Moscow, Tass and Radio Moscow reported his arrival with all the flowery detail they reserve for VIPs...
Zhukov went straight from the airport to a meeting of the Presidium. By late that afternoon it was clear that he had refused to accept the proffered "promotion," and that the showdown Khrushchev had hoped to avoid was under way. So lengthy was the debate that Khrushchev and other Presidium members who had accepted invitations to an Iranian embassy reception were twice obliged to postpone the hour of their arrival. When they finally did show up, all that came out of the Presidium was the curt announcement that Zhukov had been replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...
Zhukov soon formed an alliance with Khrushchev. He may have helped him depose Malenkov as First Party Secretary. When the showdown with Beria came, it was Zhukov who ordered the army's tanks into the heart of Moscow to paralyze Beria's police. Elevated to Defense Minister, Zhukov was the man who ordered Soviet tanks into Budapest ("liquidating fascism," he called it) to crush the Hungarian rebellion for Khrushchev. Last June, when the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich forces mustered a majority in the Presidium, it was. Zhukov who saved Khrushchev by throwing the army's support...
Syria's decision was part of a formula worked out behind the scenes, to avoid a showdown in the bitter two-week discussion...
...right-wing Indianapolis Star, accused the President of "a deliberate effort to placate the Negro vote." The ordinarily all-for-Ike Los Angeles Times took the opportunity to indict the Supreme Court for practicing "sociology" and sniffed that the President seemed to have decided on the Little Rock showdown not so much for sound domestic reasons as to please "our hired foreign friends...