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...Moscow prison, two Americans while away the hours of their lonely confinement. They read Dickens, Thackeray and the Bible; they write letters to their wives. It has been nearly five months since Air Force Lieutenants F. B. Olmstead and John McKone and four companions were shot down in their RB-47 reconnaissance plane over the Barents Sea. The two young officers were captured, brought to Moscow on loudly trumpeted but plainly trumped-up charges of espionage. The body of one fellow airman was returned to the U.S.; the others are listed as missing...
...eloquent argument before the U.N. at the time, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge protested that the RB-47 was on a legal reconnaissance flight, well beyond the limits of Russian territorial waters, that the crewmen were in uniform, and that they had made no pretense at concealment. Lodge offered to argue the case, backed up by evidence, before any international tribunal; the Soviets coldly turned the offer down. And there the matter...
There was no hullabaloo demanding their release, no publicity such as attended the case and trial of Francis Gary Powers -a well-paid civilian who admittedly flew his U-2 over Russia on a photomapping expedition for the Central Intelligence Agency. The men of the RB-47 were uniformed members of the Air Force, on regular duty and a legal mission...
...wives and widows of the men of the RB-47 have abided by the department's request to keep quiet and wait. But waiting is difficult for young wives, and they can find small comfort in the driblets of letters that manage to seep through the Communist censorship. Among the personal messages the prisoners were permitted to write to their families, a few notes gave an inkling, especially as the Christmas season approached, of their solitary anguish. "I can't believe that nothing is happening," wrote Bruce Olmstead, "and I do my best to make it from...
...usual mark of the neutral is to abstain on issues tied closely to the cold war. When the Soviet Union moved to debate the flights of the U-2 and RB-47, the U.S. won the balloting 54 to 10, but one third of the U.N. membership abstained, including countries generally considered pro-Western (Austria, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Liberia...