FLIGHTS TO BERLIN
Soviet Demand Rejected WASHINGTON. April 13. The United States today rejected Russia’s demand that American Air Force planes fly no higher than 10,000 ft in flights to West Berlin. In a formal Note, the United States served notice that “whenever weather or the operational characteristics of equipment require.” flights at higher altitudes will be carried out. The Note, delivered to the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow, was in reply to Russia’s complaint that a flight by a United States Air Force Cl3O turbo-prop plane on March 27 violated Russia’s “right” to forbid high-altitude flights. In rejecting Russia’s demand, the United States said Russia had no rights whatever to set a ceiling. The Note also rejected, as contrary to the facts, Moscow’s suggestion that the United States had deliberately staged the March 27 flight to wreck the scheduled Big Four Foreign Ministers’ meeting set for Geneva on May 11.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28870, 15 April 1959, Page 13
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