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Time for a Trial. All this was passed by Moscow's censors after only brief dithering. But it was a full 20 hours before the censors finally got the word to release the rest of Nikita's intemperate ramblings. Ridiculing the U.S. request for an interview with Powers, Khrushchev said flatly: "We shall try him ... try him severely, as a spy." When he recalled Herter's cool assertion that U.S. reconnaissance flights would be justified as long as Soviet secrecy continued, Nikita shook his fist and cried: "Impudence! Sheer impudence! There was a time-I remember...
Barely two hours after Ike had spoken, Nikita Khrushchev lashed back. This time the scene of Nikita's diatribe was the Chess Pavilion of Moscow's Gorky Park, where Soviet propagandists had mounted a show of trophies of the U2. Walking in unannounced, Khrushchev stared at the exhibits, quipped: "I suppose you could call this an exchange of technical information." Then he clambered up on a wicker chair and held an impromptu press conference. Asked whether his estimation of Eisenhower had been changed by the U-2 incident, Nikita attacked Ike directly for the first time since...
...Nikita's moral: "The U.S. wants to live according to this law. But we are not a defenseless passerby. If the U.S. has not yet experienced a real war on its territory, has not experienced air raids, and if it wishes to unleash a war, we shall be compelled to fire rockets which will explode on the aggressor's territory in the very first minutes...
...Nikita began the assault at a reception in the Czech embassy in Moscow, where he rambled and rumbled his grievances. Excerpt: "When Twining, the then chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, arrived here [in 1956] we welcomed him as a guest and entertained him. He left our country by air and next day sent a plane flying at great altitude to our country. This plane flew as far as Kiev . . . Only an animal might act like Twining, eating at a place, then doing its unpleasant business there...
Along with the down-on-the-farm crudity came a threat aimed at the West's more vulnerable allies. Said Nikita: "The countries that have bases on their territories should note most carefully the following: if they allow others to fly from their bases to our territory, we shall hit at those bases." To drive his point home, Khrushchev summoned to his side Pakistani Ambassador to Moscow Salman Ali and warned him that Soviet defense forces "have drawn a ring around Peshawar "-where the U2's pilot Francis Powers allegedly began his flight-and were prepared, if necessary...