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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C.
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Touring Red a Politician
With Promising Future
By TOM WHITNEY
AnocUUd Trtm suit Corrupondeat
CHICAGO, Aug. 18.—Vladimir
Matskevich is s Communist poli
tician with a promising future.
•nils bald and rotund 44-year
old Ukrainian, acting minister
at agriculture of the USSR and
chief of the Russian farm dele
gation now touring the United
States, looks like one of -the
brighter Vising stars in the So
viet political heavens.
Be also looks very much the
way Americans think a Soviet
politician ought to look.
Probably it's his head and
face which do It. He’s bald
except on the back and sides
of his head. But these he shaves
to create the billiard ball Im
pression which Americans have
come to associate with Russians
through the image of such fa
mous characters as Marshal
Semyon Timoshenko.
Os face Is round in typically
Slavic tradition.
Can Make Friends
I have been touring with the
Soviet farm delegation for four
weeks. I have watched Mr.
Matskevich with particular in
terest. And I’ve conversed with
Mm on numerous occasions.
I have been Impressed with
hls flair for making friends and
influencing people.
Let’s take as an example a
scene at the Chamber of Com
merce dinner far the Russians
at Cedar Rapids, lowa. There
was a period when Mr. Metske
vich answered queries.
An lowan said: “When Pre
mier Malenkov resigned, hls
statement referred to mistakes
in farm policy as one of the rea
sons for his resignation. What
were those mistakes?”
Immediately another lowan
rose.
“We have agreed,” he said,
“that we will not discuss con
troversial questions at this din
ner. Therefore I suggest the
question be withdrawn.”
He Answers, Says Nothing
Mr. Matskevich listened to
the exchange through an in
terpreter. "But I would like to
answer the question please,” he
said.
"When Premier Malenkov re
signed, in his statement he cov
ered the reasons for his resigna
tion quite fully, and I don’t have
anything to add to that.”
His audience thought he had
answered the question, but he
had said nothing. The impres
sion be had created was of an
open and honest man. Mr.
Matksevich made a good im
pression.
And this has been the story
all the way around cm this
lengthy tour.
Mr. Matskevich has a quality
which Americans have not In
general associated in the past
with high-ranking Communist
leaders: A sense of humor. It’s
not the bitter humor of a Vyshin
sky, but a good deal more gentle.
. When he arrived in Detroit to
visit the Ford plant reporters
asked Mr. Matskevich why he
had come to their city:
"We’re very interested in Jap
anese cherries,” he cracked.
"And we came here, of course, to
study Japanese cherries.”
Smile Goes a Long Way
The Soviet leader manages to
have a good word for nearly
everybody and everything. A
smile and some praise go a long
way, he knows. He has passed
out little medals—from the All-
Union Agricultural Exposition in
Moscow—wherever he has gone.
Vladimir Matskevich was born,
according to Soviet publications,
in 1909 in the Ukraine.
On his tour about the Midwest
Mr. Matskevich has told how he
was a director of a state farm.
His first big job seems to have
been as the director of one of the
biggest agricultural schools in
the Ukraine—the Kharkov Agri
cultural Institute. He held, this
job, he has related, for some
nine years, including apparently
some of the war years.
He was made minister of live
stock for the Ukraine after the
war, he has said. And when this
ministry was combined with the
ministry of agrlulture be became
instead deputy minister of agrl-
Boy Bitten to Death
By Pack of Dogs
BRACEBRIDGE, Ontario, Aug.
18 UP).— A 6-year-old boy was
bitten to death by a pack of 14
farm dogs here yesterday when
he tried to keep them 'from
mauling hls own pet dog.
Police said Wayne Baker had
wandered away from hls family’s
summer home at nearby Mat
tMasville. He was found in a
clump of bushes on a neighbor
ing farm an hour later.
Mrs. Vera MacDonald, who
owns the farm and dogs, said
she had gone to the store shortly
before the incident. When she
returned she found her dogs
sniffing at some bushes. She
chased them and found the
mutilated child.
The boy was taken to a hos
pital in Bracebridge, but several
blood transfusions failed to save
hls life.
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article, is a former Aessacieted Press
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York, be is eccomponying the Soviet
farm delegation on its tear es the
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culture. In 1949 he was made
minister of agriculture of the
Ukraine.
In the meanwhile, according
to Soviet press sources, Mr.
Matskevich had ben active in
Communist Party politics. He
was elected to • the Ukrainian
Party Central Committee in early
1949.
' In Ukraine Pelitbureau
m April 1980 Mr. Matskevich
was named first deputy premier
of tiie Ukraine. In the same
month he became a member of
the Communist Party Politbureau
for the Ukraine.
In March, 1988, Mr. Matske
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job as lint deputy premier of
the Ukraine. later that year he
gras not re-elected to the Com
munist Party organs of the Uk
raine. The reasons are not clear.
He may have fallen into difficul
ties because of bis close associa
tion with certain agricultural
i measures supported by Nikita
, Khrushchev which were rejected
by Stalin. Or perhaps he was
, transferred to Moecow to work
there.
He became prominent again
after Stalin’s death when Mr.
. Khrushchev had become one of
the two top men at the USSR.
He was named first deputy min
-1 ister of agriculture of the ÜBSR,
Sometime between September
1963 and February 1984.
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i in this job he quickly became
, prominent In propagandising the
Khrusehehev programs for de
. velopment of Soviet farming.
In March, 1988, Mr. Matake
vich’s chief, Ivan Benediktov,
was transferred to other work-
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appointed to take Benediktov’S]
place. There is no minister. In .
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A COMMUNIST POLITICIAN— VIadimir Matskevich, acting Minister of Agricul
ture of the Soviet Union and chief of the Russian farm delegation now touring
this country, is caught in three revealing studies.— AP Wirepnoto.
a competent agricultural special
ist. Hls questions show detailed
knowledge of up-to-date farm
ing practices and a grasp of
farm problems.
But If Mr. Matskevich makes
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will not be as an agricultural
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