Summit Crisis: Mr K In Ugly Mood Over U-2 Incident
Summit Crisis: Mr K In Ugly Mood Over U-2 Incident
Image Quality is poor and will not improve upon mastering. Mr. K. in Ugly Mood Over U-2 Incident. (U2 Affair) On display in Moscow the wreckage of the pilot Francis Power's U-2 Reconnaissance Plane for Moscow'vites and newsmen to see. Soviet launches its most anti belligerent anti-American propaganda barrage in recent years. The spy plane incident on the eve of the Summit was seized upon by the Kremlin and blown up to proportions that startled and shocked the outside world. Khrushchev himself at the Moscow press conference used a ferrous tarry. Charging America of using deliberate aggression and threatening to attack any allied bases from which U-2 jets flew over Russia. Hopes for the Summit Talks even then grew faint. Its clear at the time, that Mr K was laying ground work for a clash in which the actual issue, would be his demands on West Berlin. Moscow, Russia. Interior, people mill about the wreckage of Gary Powers' U2 spy plane. Photos on wall (of Powers?). Photographers. Nikita Khrushchev at the exhibit; speaking Pessimism was in the air as Khrushchev's plane arrives in Paris. On arrival he denounced certain influential circles, in his words, who are preventing the improvement of the international climate. It was clear that the emotional Russian Premier was in an ugly mood. President Eisenhower arrived and was for warned by Mr K's pronouncements to be prepared for heavy going. President Eisenhower was un-smiling and in his Air Port Address - Troubled but now without hope Paris, France Airplane taxis in. Khrushchev and other men walk down (presumably red) carpet on tarmac. US Air Force plane arrives. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower walks along carpet. American flag and French flag fly together. President Dwight D Eisenhower speaks, "The hopes for humanity call on the four of us to purge our minds of prejudice and our hearts of rancor. Far too much is at stake to indulge in profitless bickering". Exteriors of building Khrushchev's deliberately talked in at the first meeting with an insulting titrate directed at President Eisenhower personally. He withdrew his invitation to the President to visit the Soviet Union and he demanded a public apology to the U-2 Spy Flights. Ike disclosed that future U-2 Flights has been canceled. But the Summit talks seem on the verge of collapse. In a few brief hours Khrushchev had brought Soviet - American relations to their lowest point, since Stalin at his worse.