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* Meme tt ct ‘ ee ens sche gine? Sa nite ne arta came Se ie: mot i an cadets iat tianlian i Te S ~ Pots .1e _ om 6 e ss e e . my . letters written by Captain Powers to his wife, that he was being well treated and is permitted to take walks and sun batha. | | A few days later Mr. Charles Porter, a member of the U. S. House of Representatives, revealed that Ilya Ehrenburg, the Kremlin's leading ~ peace propagandist, had told him that Powers would face trial as a spy but receive only a nominal prison sentence. At a press conference on June 14 the wife of the U-2 pilot, Mrs. Powers, allowed her medical advisor to reveal that in a letter dated May 31, her husband wrote that a few hours after his capture he was taken to Moscow and then went on a tour of the city which he described as "beautiful." He has books to read and a small yard in which to exercise. More recently the Soviets have agreed to give Mr. Powers, Sr., a | visa to visit his son and the Kremlin has since announced that Captain Powers will stand trial in August, 1960, and that the trial will be open to members of the public; to foreign newspapermen and even foreign | tourists will be able to attend. All this has a peculiar smell to it. j c Students of Communism know that Khrushchev would not dare to put Powers on public trial if he were not sure that Powers would admit every charge laid against him. In fact it looks as if the trial is to be the greatest anti-American display of the decade. Answers Please _ Two vital questions must be answered by Mr. Dulles if American and Western prestige is not to suffer more indignities like the Tokyo-visit fiasco. (Over) L