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PARIS. (AP)—The summit conference fell to pieces yesterday “with the United states
: and the Soviet Union trading charges recalling the cold war's bleakest days. Nikita $. Khrushchev bitterly arraigned the United States for the U- ” plane incident and served hotice that President Eisenhower will not be welcome in the Soviet Union. Eisenhower defended the U-2 flight as
a4
-.an effort to secure the West against surprise attack, but said flights over the Soviet
-.<
Union
are suspended ‘‘and are not to be resumed.” Later, outside the conference, Hisenhower said Khrushchev had “brushed aside all arguments of reason” and shown determination to wreck the conference. He expressed willingness to carry on: two-way discussions with the Soviet Union. Last_night Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was trying to pick up the pieces and-revive: the col-dlapsed conference. He went to confer separately with’ the : other leaders. But there was. only a glimmer;of hope that the Khrushchev and Eisenhower viewpoints ‘could be reconciled sufficiently to bring about resumption of the four : power
sessions
tomorrow.
.
At yesterday’s first meeting of the big four Khrushchev tersely refused to negotiate with the U. S. chief ‘executive unless the President apologized for the flight of the intelligence plane shot down May 1 over the Soviet Union. : He withdrew his invitation to Eisenhower to visit Moscow
June
10,
saying
the
Russians
might
able “‘tio receive the President with proper
not
now
be
cordiality.”
Khrushchev called for a delay of six or eight months in
the
Big
Four
session
—a
delay
which
near or beyond the end of Eisenhower’s (See
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fury
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President
They
suggest
“Heads
I win,
the
craft
—
pre-
his ultimatum figuring in all tails
you
lose.”
In other words, an Eisenhower climbdown on the continuance
-of.
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Khrushchev arrange the Big
failed
Prime Minand = Nikita
last
night
4)
to
for a further, meeting of Four, but the two leaders
will continue today.
their
private
talks
(See
ALIVE,
Page
4)
sagt and the*
the
Union
mained,
A British spokesman said night’s meeting of an hour overflights ._35 minutes ranged over all
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over
Soviet
Soviet
EISENHOWER . . . Studies Soviet
territory
had
been,
the calculated %
“It is clear that the declaration of such a polity, which can be pursued only when states are in a state of war, dooms the summit
conference
to
complete
failure in advance.” *
*
. If the U.
were
to declare
DE
S. Government
in future
the United States will not violate the state borders of the U.S.S.R. with its aircraft, that it deplores the provocative actions undertaken in the past, and will punish those directly guilty of such actions... 1, as head of the (See: REMARKS, Page 21)
GAULLE
(AP)—French
Charles
de
Gaulle
Presi-
last night
Nikita Khrushchev, President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
was
further
the breakdown conference due chev-Eisenhower
evidence
ARROWSMITH Eisen-
tactics,
canceled a luncheon he had arranged today for Soviet Premier
This
L.
(AP)—President
hower kept his famed temper in check at yesterday’s summit conference meetings. But afterward in private he exploded with fury over Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s
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MARVIN PARIS
Cancels Lunch PARIS,
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that
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policy of
the United States , ee
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Ike Explodes In Private At
Khrushchev: : “¢... President Eisenhower himself confirmed that execution of flights of American air-
and to restore the Communist’s shaky confidence in Khrushchev’s leadership. mier presented to Eisenhower, probability:
4)
yesterday:
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Eisenhower
it
PARIS (P—Highlighis of Premier Khrushchev’s and President Eisenhower’s remarks at the Big Four summit meeting
PARIS, (AP) — Allied diplomats said last night Nikita Khrushchev’s risk-all bid to postpone the Summit.talks. was designed to embarrass and humiliate
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convene
Summit Remarks Reviewed
KHRUSHCHEV
eee sound
SUMMIT,
could
second four year-
of
of the Summit to the Khrushspy plane row.
That.is the word from Hisenehower associates who either were with
the President
session
or with
turned
to the
in the summit
him
when
American
he ree
Embaisy
residence.
he
“Angry isn’t the word for it— was absolutely furious,” an
official reported regarding
(See EXPLODES,
Eisen
Page 21)
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