Evening star., 1960-05-14
SUMMIT
Talk of Private Showdown
On Aerial Spying Persists
SUMMIT

Continued From First Page
manyS and improvement Of
relations between East and
West.
President Eisenhower and
Britain's Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan are due in tomorrow
morning for the conference
that will seat them with Mr..
Khrushchev and French Presi-
dent Charles de Gaulle.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer,
an unofficial spectator though
not a participant. few in from
Bonn in a military convair
bearing the black Iron Cross
Of the West German Air Force.
With him came his foreign
minister, Heinrich Won Bren-
tano. for talks with the Western
Big Three foreign ministers con-
corning their chiefs parley with
Mr.. Khrushchev.
The pudgy Communist chief
tain stepped from his huge
plane a few minutes before
noon. A l00-piece military band
played the Soviet national an
them. A French Air Force COM
pany paid him formal military
honorS.
French Deputy Premier
Roger Frey, greeting him on
behalf of Mr.. de Gaulle, led
him along a red carpet to wait
ing microphoneS.
Mr.. KhruShchev has the ini-
tiative and the aerial espionage
conflict between him and Mr..
Eisenhower, if it develops &C
cording to advance indications,
could wreck the Big Four meet
ing.
Position Not Defined
French and American dip
lomats agreed that if Mr..
Khrushchev confronted Mr.. Eli
senhower in a bitter and hos
tile manner, hurting verbal
invective, the first summit con-
ference in five years could COL
lapse within five minutes.
Mr.. KhruShchev's brief ar
rival commentS-as expected
did not conclusively define his
position. They left him point
ing the finger of accusation at
the United States and claim
ing for himself an earnest ef-
fort to end tensions and make
EaSt-West peace.
His talk finished, Mr.. Khru-
shchev stepped into a waiting
limousine for the ride to the
Soviet Embassy, 10 miles away.
After checking in at the en-
bassy he went for a sightseeing
tour by automobile.
He had left Moscow, through
gray skies, in a grim and ex-
traordinarily silent mood. He
had nothing to say on depar-
ture there. But at Orly Field
his huge turbo-prop airliner set
down through sunny skies. To
some onlookers he seemed glad
to be back in Paris, which he
visited two months ago.
When three small girls ap-
preached primly with big bou-
quets OF red roses. he smiled
broadly. He handed the flowers
to Marshal Rodio Malinovsky,
his armed forces chief.
His airport statement fol-
lowed the standard Russian
pre-summit line in delineating
the problems that in his view
ought to be successfully tackled
here. In essence, he said that
the United States will be to
blame for any failure at the
summit.
Press Plays Up U-2
The Soviet chief took off
from Moscow in an atmosphere
that was hardly optimistic for
success of the Paris talks.
Front pages of Moscow news
papers were covered with
stories and pictures denounc-
ing American aggression" by
the U-2 spy plane downed over
Sverdlovsk on May Day.
President Eisenhower appar-
emily is no less determined in
his support of spy flights be-
yond the Iron Curtain than Mr..
Khrushchev is in denouncing
them as aggressive acts.
Gen. de Gaulle planned an
attempt to get Mr.. Khru-
shchev to soft-pedal the spy
plane row. The former is anx-
ious for the Big Four to go
ahead, as originally planned,
with negotiations on diSarma-
ment, a nuclear test treaty, the
Berlin dispute and other out
standing issues.
Prime Minister Macmillan is