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i) et oye sage ee et oo the Weve COMET REN ee came Question: "Mr, KHRUSHCHEV, has the estimation of President EISENHOWER changed which you expressed at your return from the United States?" fie ee, oo N. & KHRUSHCHEV: "You see, the declaration of the Department of State of the United States concerning the reconnaissance plane has modified, of course, my idea about the noncomplicity of the President of the United States in this matter. I didnot knowthatin = __ the United States an espionage plan was being elaborated which included reconnaissance flights over the territory of the Soviet Union. The declaration of the Department of State of the United States, approved by the President, has made it clear that the flight of the North American reconnaissance plane over our country is not a caprice of some irresponsible official, but the realization of a plan elaborated by ALLEN DULLES, Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency; that is to say, of a department which is under the auspices of the President of the United States. - “Mr. HERTER has recognized that the President of the United States gave instructions to gather various information by any means, Concerning the basis of these instructions, programs were planned and applied which, according to HERTER, included ample observations _ from the air by planes and by incursion, I ask you to pay attention to: by incursion, It means the flight of reconnaissance, espionage, over the territory of a state with which normal relations are maintained, This plan was approved by the President. An inconceivable thing! And then I was supposed to say: *How good you are!' To do this would be a lack of self-respect. I would say that Mr. HERTER has removed all the veils and also all the colors which, so to speak, masked and adorned, serving as a cover for the policy of theimperialists of . the United States, By his intervention, he has taught a lesson to the ferocious jaws of militarism trying to frighten us. And what has occurred? The result has been that this aspect did not cause any fright. Such acts of the militarists of the United States are not caused by the heroism of their instigators, but by their cowardice, Not that person is dangerous who dominates his nerves, relies upon his energies and possibilities, but the coward. . "I have read frequently that KHRUSHCHEV assures that capitalism __ will succumb, Would that not be a reason for making reconnaissance flights over the territory of the Soviet Union? However, I have not said so, but MARX established that a century ago, (Animation, applause)