Max Freedman
The Guardian

Washington, February 11

An instructive contrast between Soviet and American policy has been
provided in this weekend's exchange of Captain Powers and Colonel Abel.

Every newspaper in the United States has given its major space to the
return of Captain Powers, the U-2 pilot shot down and captured deep in
Russian territory in May, 1960. President Kennedy stayed awake until
3.30 in the morning when he received word at the White House that
Captain Powers had been safely transferred to American officials in Berlin.

The criticism and the praise of Captain Powers' role in the U-2 affair
have faded from public memory. For most people he has become a symbol of
an American citizen caught in the sinister coil of the Communist system:
no architect of policy but a mere helpless individual overcome by forces
he neither started nor could control. His release testifies to the
enduring tradition that the fate of every American suffering the
unwelcome attention of a foreign government must remain the concern and
responsibility of the United States.


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I really should be ashamed of myself....nahhh...