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<. ‘did not work after he bailed out. “ | Walter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers, isn’t doing our side any good when he says this affair is “the most stupid blunder in American his- Congress who called for a public in- _Westigation, a demand that fortunately Seems to be subsiding. -. - , Only two weeks ago the Soviet a ewe marine George Washington was en- gaged in a Polaris missile-launching exercise. ; Russian submarines also have been spotted in grandstand seats just off Cape Canaveral. © . .- KHRUSHCHEV HAS CHOSEN to make a big breeze about the U-2 incident in the hope of gaining propa- ganda advantage in the jockeying at Paris. . ; If it had not been the U-2 it would have been somethirg else. As,ex-President Harry Truman re- marks, the Russians make a habit of creating international incidents shortly before peace conferences. President Eisenhower has the assur- ance from Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson that the whole country, regardless of partisan politics, stands behind him in dealing with a crisis, if that is what Khrushchev wants to make of it. : 4 __ In the world as it is today—aend as it always has been—espionage is a fact of life. ~. , This fact was implicit in Secretary Herter's statement Monday that our reconnaissance planes have engaged in “extensive aerial surveillance” of Cam- “gunist territory as a vital precaution ‘ against surprise attack. If the administration did not do so, Americans would have rea! reason to' ‘be disturbed. - ‘ So let's put this incident in proper perspective and form up behjfid _..._.. ... Presiden Eisenhower as he gets to megyKrashcher next Mon COWARBIE» . . ,@bould be returned unless the evidence ~~ = ois incontrovertible. It is far from that. .-:. - Atis quite possible the mechanism pre- sumably installed to destroy the plane tory.” Nor were those few members of _—_ trawler Vega appeared on the sceneh . Long land as the U. S. nucl ub-