ADVICE BY MR K

Press, Issue 29236, 21 June 1960, Page 15

ADVICE BY MR K

How Not To Be Embarrassed

(Rec. 11.30 p.m.) BUCHAREST, June 20.

Mr Khrushchev said today that he would never have suffered such an embarrassment as did President Eisenhower over the cancelled visit to Japan, British United Press reported. Speaking informally to Western #»r respondents, Mr Khrushchev also repeated his warning that Russia would destroy any air base used for unauthorised flights over the Soviet Union. The Soviet leader referred to Mr Eisenhower’s visit to Japan in answer to a question about whether he planned to visit Budapest.

Mr Khrushchev said he had no plans to visit Hungary, since he had no invitation, and he made it a principle to go only where he was invited.

“If you follow that rule, what happened to Mr Eisenhower would not happen to you—Mr Eisenhower was to go to Japtn, but had to cancel his visit because of the Japanese people’s heavy opposition,” he said. ’ "I would never have suffered such an embarrassment as Mr Eisenhower.” Mr Khrushchev maintained that the Soviet Union still desired another summit conference, but added: "However, if there should be no summit conference, we shall live on as before.” He said disarmament was the key international problem, but the German question and the Berlin problem “must be solved soon. •

“The Soviet Union Is ready for complete disarmament of her forces at any time,” Mr Khrush-

chev added. “However, we believe that the Western Powers are not interested in real disarmament” This, he said, had been demonstrated by the West at the Geneva nuclear test ban and disarmament conferences.