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...Shield. Before Khrushchev's lethal buffoonery at the summit, criticism of the U.S. was widespread. Britons grumbled at U.S. "blunders" and at the "sickening sequence of error and miscalculation" surrounding the U-2 incident. In Norway, which did not like being identified as the ultimate destination of the U2, trade unions and leftist groups argued that their country should give up its membership in NATO. Japan feared bloody demonstrations against U.S. bases...
...huffed and puffed about the intrusion of the U2. If the flights had gone on for four years and he had known about them, why had he not protested on his visit to the U.S.? His answer was insulting but not compelling. He had been on the point of doing so at Camp David because the atmosphere was "so convivial, with President Eisenhower telling me to call him 'my friend' in English and using the same words with regard to myself in Russian. But then I became apprehensive, and I thought there was something fishy about this friend...
Next day 30,000 left-wing students and trade unionists paraded through Tokyo's streets shouting "Down with Kishi!" and "U2, go home!" and the Soviet Union formally protested against the treaty. By his coup Kishi assured that the treaty would become law on the day (June 19) President Eisenhower is scheduled to arrive in Japan. For the constitution provides that if the upper house (where Kishi's majority is even bigger) should for some reason delay its approval, any measure passed by the lower house of the Diet becomes law automatically after 30 days. But the Socialists...
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...
...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, to take "retaliatory measures" against the Pakistani base. When Ambassador Oscar Gundersen of Norway, where Powers had planned to end his flight, asked for a definition of "retaliatory measures," Khrushchev replied: "If these provocations continue, we will...