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...State Department, thought any more words would do any good, but just for the record, the State Department said them anyway. It sent a new, white-knuckled protest to Moscow over the U.S. Navy Privateer patrol bomber which the Russians shot down last month, apparently over the open Baltic...
When a State Department spokesman charged Russia last week with "an astonishing lack of common international courtesy" in the Baltic plane incident (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a 67-year-old correspondent listened impassively and scribbled notes. He wore a conservative suit, glasses and a brooding look; he might have been the correspondent for a Midwestern daily. But Larry Todd is reporting for no corn-belt readers. He is senior correspondent of the official Russian news agency Tass in Washington, D.C., and registered as such with the Department of Justice...
...CASE OF THE NAVY PRIVATEER. Dispatched: a carefully weighed charge that the missing four-engined Navy patrol bomber, because of the known facts of its flight plans and its slow speed, could not have been over Russia's Baltic territory when the Russians said it was. Hence it must have been shot down or crippled...
...Congress, where both houses unanimously voted posthumous decorations for the Privateer crew members. And the hollowness of the Russian accusations seemed to be established further by the finding of a second rubber life raft, of the type issued to the Privateer, picked up by a Swedish ship in the Baltic. The raft showed evidences of having been blasted on the water by high-powered airborne projectiles...
...week's end, only one scrap of evidence had been picked up in the Baltic-an empty yellow life raft of the type issued to Navy patrol bombers. This week, the U.S. charged that the Russians shot down the plane over open waters and demanded indemnity for the dead American flyers. But it was a sign of U.S. awareness of the incidental perils of cold war, that there were no shouts for any hot fighting to begin...