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TORIES COVER UP FOR SPY FLIGHTS U.S. Brass Admits Provocation Against Soviets

By Gerry Healy

The Newsletter, vol. 4 no. 160, 23 July 1960 · scan page 1

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By G. HEALY MACMILLAN’S letter to Khrushchev is a propaganda stunt designed to cover up the latest preparations .

for war on the part of United States imperialism.

The letter was announced in the House of Commons on the same day that reports were reprinted from the U.S. News and World Report of an interview with General -Thomas D. White, chief of staff of the United States Air Force. General White bluntly admitted that it isthe policy of the U.S. air force to fly near enough to the Soviet Union ‘to be provocative’.

This was necessary, he said, in order to keep Britain and the other® allies ‘in good heart’.

Macmillan’s pious words about peace were uttered with full knowledge of what General White and the U.S. military brasshats are up to. That is why it was the action of a Tory hypocrite falsely posing as a peace-maker.

As Macmillan disclosed the contents of his letter to This playing around with the freedom of peoples and the Khrushchev he was also aware that there is no provision constant threat of the use of military weapons arises befor consultation with him or his government on the final cause the Soviet bureaucracy is itself frightened of the decision as to how the war is to be launched. General social revolution. ‘ White was asked a question: ‘We can’t wait for Congress to pass a resolution?’ In a reply he said: ‘No, we certainly can’t.’ The question was then asked: ‘Who had MAKE SURE OF ANTI-BOMB VICTORY to give the order?’ And he replied: ‘The President’.

The Tory. government was ignored.

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