LET RUSSIANS HEAR IKE, WHITE HOUSE URGES K.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200540036-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: May 25, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

MAY 2 5 1960
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; te r "The concept of responsi-i
9 C hiiity and the concept of unity
Urges iffrom all participants. I have:,
? ~?m }said and said repeatedly than
'unity does not require, sweep
ling facts under the rug."
The Majority Leader.urged staft Reporter
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Senators to awa
l i.e. White House yesterday urged Soviet Premier !~ the Foreign Relations Corn
Nikita S. Khrushchev to permit the Russian people to mittee and of the Subcom
listen to President Eisenhower's radio TV report tonight mittee on National Policy Ma
on the collapse of the Sumipit Conference. , chinery. "
The request came shortly'ly what took place and the The latter group, under the,
after .he Senate Foreign Re- P o l i c i e s that influenced 1 chairmanship of Send Henry
lations Committee agreed t4 events." 1 M. Jackson (D-Wash:), yester-
Herter will be the first wit- k~ day heard- Robert Cutler and
conduct wh.at,_C1I~rran M J ;~ ness when the Committee be- Dillon Anderson, former NSC
William Fulbright (D ArkJ.gins its study Friday. He is~directors, in executive session.
called an "objective and im- scheduled to' appear Thurs- It is studying the policy-mak-
partial"- inquiry"-into events; day afternoon' before theing machinery of the Govern-
ad policies leading up to the House Foreign Affairs Comment
.
Summit collapse. mittee to report on the abor?
tive Paris meeting. A Republican, Sen. Margaret
.; Seri hours later, Cell=nian Chase Smith (Me.), told the
ilic.hard B. Russell (D-Ga.) dis-'I Both sessions will be be I Senate she believed that the
I closed that his Armed Serv-',hind closed doors. But Ful "is
subcommittee on Ccntral'bright said that, although the Administration s subject to
Intelligence 'Agency opera- Senate inquiry would be con-lcriticism on the handling ofd
tians will hold secret hearingsi ducted throughout in execu-j'the U-2 affair - and conse-
on the U-2 episode in coopera-i tive session, a censored trans- quently fair game for Demo-.
Lion with an Appropriations; cript would be made available crats."
subcommittee handling CIA; immediately after the testi? it She said'she did not believe
moray. dthat the Democrats "should be
Tile House Foreign Affairs He said the procedures of !silenced by a loyalty gag." But i
Q (Committee said it would hearithe 1951 inquiry into the dis-'she deplored personal dispar
a secret report from Secre-1 missal of Gen, Douglas Mac. agement of the President and,
tary of State Christian Herter Arthur would be followed. ,his ability to handle his jobs
Thursday afternoon on the C e n s o r e d transcripts were
In New Yor$ Democratic
Summit collapse. There was made. public within a couple
no indication, however, wheth- of-hours after',the testimony. Nationa Chairman Paul M.
er it would follow up by hear- Other witnesses will probButler accused the Adminis-'
ing other witnesses. ably include CIA Director Dul tration of "too soft a policy
? Iles,,, a representatide?"of?"'the toward Russia, in the last
White House Press Secre- st two
James C. Hagerty said iii rational Aeronautics a n d i, years." He told a news coti-
'lie was making his appeal Space Administration, and ference he was not charging
through newsmen to , the' Secretary'.of Defense Thomas! appeasement, but' rather un-
Kremlin authorities. He also 1! S, Gates the Chairman re- , witting reliance on Russian
said he hoped that Soviet;pott' Communists.
newspapers would carry a full Ile said in answer to a ques ? At about the same time, Re-
account of the President's ;ition that there had been no;: publican National Chairman
address, 'idiscus-,ion of the need to in-I'Thruston B. Morton took aim'
The Voice of America will I
vice Hagerty, but that he did i at Adlai E. Stevenson and
beam the talk around the! not wish to "foreclose anyone."! 'said in a-press conference tha
world in English and 38 other Senators other than mem
langua ;es, including Russian. l bers..-of the Foreign Relations Stevenson's published views',,
The White House "hopes that' Committee may attend the "angle sharply toward a soft"!
the Soviet government will sessions, 'Fiilbright said, but approach to the Soviet chal-I
permit the Soviet people toT may not ' ask ? questions. He'' lenge. ? .
hear and will not jam" the I said lie d d`not know how long'`. Morton accused Stevensonil
broadcasts, Hagerty said. the inquiry would last, but-did and some other Democrats ofl
:'rot expect it to be lengthy. recklessly trying to make a r
In preparation for his ad?
4 On the. Senate floor, there- domestic political issue of thee!
;dress
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the I resident met
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tcrciay with the National Sc?swas only. a brief continuation; Sumrilit failure.
eerily Council at a special ses- rof Monday's partisan outburst' lion at whi Allen W. Dulles, ",over the Summit failure. Sen.
head of the ~ Cent?i al Intelli- ' Stephen M. Young (D-Ohio)
pence A'"ency-, and Under See-'said that Khrushchev was not,
rotary of. State C. Douglas ? so much to . blame for thel
Dillon were present. ';,failure as "the Eisenhower
Neither is a member of 11w lack of leadership and failure
our own officials in high
Council, but Dullcs often at-; ;places of authority,"
tends Council sessions. Senate Majority Leader.
On Capitol Hill, l iilbright"`7 yndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.),
said that hi''s in to who y''
reached /ARAM6 s>>1efonJe~SionC75-001498000200540036-5
to undertake the study in ail.-other plea for "calmness and:
attempt to "understand exact-,' coolness from 'all'- f?"ourp'ea-.
nle."
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