WIVES OF U.S. AIRMEN

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 2

WIVES OF U.S. AIRMEN

“Pravda” View Of Ordeal

(NJS Prut Atsociatum-rCowngMi (Rec. 10 pjn.) MOSCOW. July 27. “Pravda” charged the United States, wit' “making a mockery of the pain and sorrow” of the wives and widows of crew members of the RB-47 shot down on July 1 over the Barents Sea. A “Pravda" corerspondent at the United Nations, where the women attended the -three-day Security Council debate on the incident, said it was calculated that their presence “would pour fat oil the fire of the fierce antiSoviet campaign being waged by American reactionary circles.’’ But the calculations misfired. “Pravda” said. American reporters and cameramen fell upon the women “like a flock of vultures—subjecting them to a shower of provocative questions.”

“Pravda” said one of the women said: “When on earth will they leave us in peace?” The “bitter feelings of these quite innocent women are quite understandable to all,” the newspaper said. “If only the women had known where their husbands were being sent and for what purpose, they would probably have clung to the wheels of the bomber to stop it from taking off.”