Evening star., 1959-02-06

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The move was yesterday:
evidence suggesting that So
Mikoyan deliberately lied t.
Secretary of State Dulles last
month in denying the Soviet
Air Force shot down an un-
armed American transport
plane with II men aboard.
Some American officials see
! a direct connection between the
incident and Premier Khru-
shchev's open invitation to
President Eisenhower to visit
Moscow.
How could Mr.. Eisenhower
trust what KhruShchev said
after the experience with the
bad faith of Mr.. Mikoyan, the
Premier'S chief lfeutenant?"
officials here ask.
Moscow Visit Ruled Out
Even though the White House
said the President would con-
slider such a visit If he thought
it would aid peace efforts, State
Department officials say the
idea of Mr.. Eisenhower going
to Moscow is now an "impos-
sible" one.
Other points of possible rap
lprochement are also put under
the same cloud. What basis
for trust is there on which to
build a disarmament agree
mentor to negotiate q ban on
nuclear weapons tests?" ofi-
cials want to know.
There is no enthusiasm here,
either, for British Prime Min
lister MacmilIan's trip to Mos
COW in two weeks.
The crisis on Berlin hardly
will be eased by this new wave
of official American resentment
for what is taken to be Soviet
duplicity. Prospects for fruit
full negotiations on the foreign
ministers level are also clouded.
How can we agree to any
disengagement plan in Central
Europe if the Russian word
where the lives of American
boys are involved - means
nothing?" one official asked in
dignantly. How could we trust
the Soviet Union to make Ber-
lin a free city, even if we
wanted to?"
Violent Reaction Expected
The State Department is pre-
pared for q violent reaction
from the Soviet Union. 1t is
assumed Moscow will denounce
the tape recording produced
yesterday as fraud and
scream countercharges Of es-
pionage and intelligence opera
tionS on Soviet borders.
Challenging Soviet good faith
is a sore spot with the Kremlin,
particularly with Mr.. Mikoyan.
He told the National Press
Club here last month that Mr..
Eisenhower was guilty of an
"impermissible" remark in his
state of the Union address
when the President said the
Soviet Union regards interna-
tional agreements as scraps of
paper.
Mr.. Mikoyan was striking
the same pose of sincerity" in
his report last Saturday to the
21St Communist Party Con-
gress on the visit to America.
II for my part gave the
proper attention to the queS-
tionS they (Americans) raised
and listened attentively to-
what they said, without evad-
ing any questions, not even the
most ticklish," Mr.. Mikoyan
told the party congress. 1T
would have been wrong to evade
the ticklish questions; 1 an
swered them as best I could"
Reason for Delay
Why did the State Depart
ment withhold the evidence on
the C-130 crash so long? Why
wasn't it released while Mr..
Mikoyan was here?
American officials say their
first concern was to persuade
the Soviet Union to provide
more information on the fate
of the IL men unaccounted for
after the crash. They say their
hope was that Mr.. Mikoyan,
after being confronted by Mr..
Nixon and Secretary Dulles
with their concern over the
case, might go back to Moscow
, and persuade Premier Khru-
shcheV to reopen the case.
Mr.. Mikoyan has been back
in Moscow more than two
weeks. The State Department
waited until he had made his