WOMEN KISS MR K.

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29316, 22 September 1960, Page 6

WOMEN KISS MR K.

Promise To Aid Relatives

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 21. Two women with families still in the Soviet Union kissed Mr Khrushchev today when he promised he would help to reunite them with their relative* in the United States. The women approached Mr Khrushchev as he left the Park Avenue headquarters of the Soviet United Nations mission on his way to Harlem. Surrounded by jostling newspapermen and security guards. Mr Khrushchev listened sympathetically as Mrs Mary Pitii and Mrs Antonina Kuc. of Manhattan, told him in Russian of their plight. After speaking with them for nearly five minutes he smiled and said something which made them so pleased that both women kissed him on the cheek. After he liad left, with a sirenwailing police escort. Mrs Pitri tearfully told reporters that she had todd him one of her two daughters was srt.il 1 in Russia, and she had not seen her for 21 years. Her husband, she added, was killed in the last war. “I am happy, so very happy.’’ she said through her tears. ’’He said he will help me if I will send in • her papers.”

’ Mrs Kuc explained that she had not seen her husband, son, or daughter and their children for 26 years, after she first left the Ukraine for America. “He promised me he was going to give me my children,” she said. Mi's Kuc added that she had tried three times before to bring them to the United States but, she claimed. the American authorities had not been interested enough to help her.