U-2 at U.N.: Reds Now Charge U.S. Menaces Peace.
U-2 at U.N.: Reds Now Charge U.S. Menaces Peace.
U-2 at U.N.: Reds Now Charge U.S. Menaces Peace. Exteriors United Nations building, flags waving in front. Interior, U.N. Security Council. MCUS - Andrei Gromyko with photographers. CUS - Henry Cabot Lodge with photographers. Henry Cabot Lodge speaks, "The United States does so in spite of the fact that the current item is aimed at us, and in spite of the fact that the charges involved in it are felicitous. We welcome the chance to state our own case. Another reason for our attitude in it may be instructive for the Soviet Representative to consider this, is that we believe in free speech, even for those who differ with us." Andrei Gromyko speaks. Gromyko speaking in Russian for one hour. He continued the campaign of denunciation that begin with the shooting down of the American Reconnaissance Plane over Russia that scuttled the Summit and brought Russia and America to an ominous low point. Lodge answer to Gromyko with a detailed expose of Soviet spy activity before summing up. Henry Cabot Lodge answer to Gromyko, "It can never be accepted that the Soviet Union can maintain a double standard where they have thousand of spies and subversive edges everywhere. By protesting one single harmless observation flight. The free world would surely be in great and peculiar danger".