Word: mckone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outstanding, repeat outstanding, article on the return of heroes McKone and Olmstead. Congratulations also to the wives who stood by their country and their Government even though at times it was frustrating...
...fine conduct of McCone and Olmstead while in Soviet custody is certainly praiseworthy. Unlike Francis Gary Powers, who at first opportunity convicted himself (and his country), McKone and Olmstead remained quiet, without committing our nation to resentment and abuse...
President Kennedy promised his news conference fortnight ago that the Russian-released RB-47 flyers, Air Force Captains Freeman Olmstead and John McKone, could tell their story publicly as soon as they were debriefed and back from leave. In their third week in the U.S., they were still on leave in Puerto Rico, still kept from the press by the Air Force...
...becoming a debilitating or dangerous habit." Early last week Kennedy and Rusk conferred for five hours, then announced their plans for achieving U.S. international aims not through summitry but through the "quiet diplomacy" of traditional channels. It was just such quiet diplomacy that helped win freedom for Olmstead and McKone...
While Airmen Olmstead and McKone were still in their Soviet cells last week, Secretary Rusk explained to top State staffers the possibility that they would soon be released. He also expressed a worry. "The one thing I fear," he said, "is that Americans will think the Russians have really changed, that they're softening, that the worst is over." It would be just as bad if the Administration itself, however happy about effecting the release of the American airmen, were to place too much stock in Nikita Khrushchev's cold war gambit...