Four Gain High Posts In China

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31109, 12 July 1966, Page 17

Four Gain High Posts In China

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

TOKYO, July 11.

Four men appear to have moved into key positions in China’s Communist hierarchy as a result of the sweeping purge in the nation’s leadership, the Associated Press reported.

The four were brought into the spotlight over the weekend when most of China’s top leaders appeared at a reception for delegates to an AsianAfrican writers’ conference Jin Peking. •I The list of the leaders and I their titles was reported in

detail by Peking Radio, the official New China News Agency and Peking newspapers. Cultural Revolution Foreign observers in Tokyo believe this may have been Mao Tse-tung’s way of announcing the team with which he intends to push forward his “cultural revolution.” Marshal Yeh Chien-yin, was raised to the central committee’s important 12-man secretariat. He is considered a possible successor to General Lo Jui-ching as army chief of the General Staff. Chen Po-ta, Mao’s former secretary and editor-in-chief of the party’s theoretical journal, “Red Flag,” was identified as “leader of the group in charge of the cultural revolution under the party’s central committee.” Vice Premier Tao chu replaces Vice Premier Lu Ting-i as party propaganda chief. Kang Shen, party theoretician and alternate member of the politburo is considered a possible successor to Peking’s disgraced Mayor, Peng Chen.