Powers Trial
Fails to Impress
Western Europe
By DENNIS NEELD
LONDON, liPi—Western Europe
Saturday summed up the Powers
trial as a propaganda showpiece
that failed to impress the nations
of Western Europe.
The verdict never was in doubt.
The sentence generally was re
garded as lenient.
Throughout the continent there
was sympathy for the accused U2
pilot, Francis Gary Powers, his
wife and parents.
They were seen as an ordinary
family caught up in the clash be
twees the world’s two biggest
powers.
But there was little sympathy
with the Soviet bid to put U.S.
policy on the dock alongside of
Powers.
Britain’s Daily Telegraph com
mented:
“Powers was sent over Russia
because America needs to know
what is going on there 'and could
not find out in other ways.
“The more the prosecutor sought
to materialie President Eisen
hower in the dock at Powers’
right hand, the darker grew the
shadow of Mr. Khrushchev on his
left.”
In Denmark, Copenhagen’s Ber
lingske Tidende said the real aim
of the trial was to establish the
United States as the culprit.
“But it was doubtful whether
the big show in Moscow will alter
the world’s judgment of the U.S.
and the U.S.S.R.,” the conserva
tive newspaper asserted. Q
In 'Rome, the independent 11
Messaggero said:
“The scope of the trial was to
place accent upon the ‘criminal
American espionage organiza
tion’.”
But II Messaggero added that a
study of prosecutor Rudenko’s
final statement reveals “state
ments so strange, falsehoods so
evident and distortions of truth
so artificial as to confirm once
again that with the Soviets it is
impossible to have discussions and
dealings on the ordinary level
of good faith.”
Neutral Sweden was equally
unimpressed by the prosecutor’s
denunciation of U. S. policy, but
otherwise the Swedes found the
Soviet handling of the case “a
satisfying surprise.”
The Stockholm-Tidningen spec
ulated that when a new U.S. Pre
sident takes office, Powers should
stand a good chance of a pardon.
Other European newspapers
also suggested Powers may not
have to serve his full 10-year
sentence. The Paris newspaper
Figaro said he might be expelled
from the Soviet Union after three
years in jail.
TITUSVILLE, Pa., WV^George
W. Fink received a 50-cent ticket
for parking overtime.
He sent police the fine in 20
checks—10 for three cents each
and 10 for two cents each.
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37 Man-Made Objects
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BEDFORD, Mass., liPi—The So
viet Union’s newest space satel
lite, and the rocket which carried
it aloft, have boosted to 37 the
number of man-made objects in
orbit about the earth, the Nation
al Space Surveillance Control
Center says.
The Center said Friday 10 of
the objects were sent into space
by the Soviet Union, and 27 by
the United States. Officials said
the total includes satellites, rock
ets, and so-called “space gar
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