Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee in honor of the U.S.S.R.'s visiting First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. The questioning, led by Lausche, turned to the crash of an off-course U.S. Air Force C-130 transport in Soviet Armenia last September; Lausche doubted the Soviets' insistence that they knew nothing about eleven crewmen still unaccounted for. Mikoyan looked Lausche in the eye and said: "You have no faith in us." Last week the State Department put out a tape-recorded transcript (see Foreign Relations) that proved again and unforgettably that Communists give words a special meaning of their own. The Kremlin...
...Soviets denied any knowledge of the plane. Later, after U.S. protests, the Reds "found" the wreckage, turned over to the U.S. six bodies (TIME, Sept. 29), stridently denied that they had shot the plane down, insisted that it had just crashed and that they had no information about the eleven airmen who were missing...
Determined to win the return of the eleven men-dead or alive- the U.S. decided again to hold back public release of the damning evidence. Instead, the State Department privately confronted the Russians with the recording, hoping that the Soviets would settle the incident quickly to avoid worldwide condemnation. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy tried it first, called Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov into his Washington office. "Smiling Mike" refused to listen to the recording, but Murphy handed him a Russian transcript. Result: silence...
...last month, the State Department decided to try again. But amiable Anastas turned back the pleas of both Vice President Nixon and Secretary of State Dulles; he was, in fact, highly irritated by U.S. insistence that the Russians were withholding the truth, as well as the eleven men. State decided to give the Russians just one more chance: perhaps Mikoyan would swing around after he returned to Moscow and talk it over with other officials...
When the Wolfe papers arrived at Houghton, they came in eleven large packing cases, with an aggregate weight of two tons. It took the best part of a year to get them organized and catalouged, and now they remain in the black boxes on the stack shelf, a little yellowing around the corners, perhaps destined to be the raw material from which another great work may in time be carved...