On display in Moscow, the wreckage of pilot Francis Power's U-2 reconnaissance plane for
Muscovites and foreign newsmen to see as the Soviet launches its most belligerent anti-American
propaganda barrage in recent years.
The spy plane incident on the eve of the summit was seized upon by the Kremlin and blown up
to proportions that startled and shocked the outside world.
Khrushchev himself at the Moscow press conference loosed a furious tirade, charging America
with deliberate aggression and threatening to attack any allied bases from which U-2 jets
flew over Russia.
Folks, while the success of the summit talks even then grew faint, it was clear at the
time that Mr. K was laying groundwork for a clash in which the actual issue would be
his demands on West Berlin.
Pessimism was in the air as Khrushchev arrived in Paris.
On arrival, he denounced certain influential circles, in his words, who were preventing
the improvement of the international climate.
It was clear that the emotional Russian premier was in an ugly mood.
President Eisenhower arrived, amply forewarned by Mr. K's bellicose pronouncements and prepared
for heavy going.
Mike was unsmiling and in his airport address, troubled but not without hope.
The hopes of humanity call on the four of us to purge our minds of prejudice and our
hearts of rancor.
Far too much is at stake to indulge in profitless bickering.
Then Khrushchev deliberately torpedoed the first meeting with an insulting tirade directed
at President Eisenhower personally.
He withdrew his invitation to the president to visit the Soviet Union and demanded a public
apology for the U-2 spy flights.
Mike disclosed future U-2 flights had been canceled, but the summit talks seemed on the
verge of collapse.
In a few brief hours, Khrushchev had brought Soviet-American relations to their lowest
point since Stalin at his worst.
The world's longest passenger vessel lies on the waves awaiting her christening.
1,035 feet in length, a $60 million craft will carry 2,000 passengers in air-conditioned
splendor.
The luxury liner is hailed by President de Gaulle as one of the great successes of French
technique.
Then the vessel, which it is hoped will bring renewed evidence to the French merchant marine,
is christened by Madame de Gaulle with the proud name SS France.
A new entry on the North Atlantic Blue Ribbon Run, Arena of Maritime Prestige.