Week of May 8, 1959

makes a promise to work for reunification of Germany at the

Big Four foreign ministers’ conference in Geneva.

Secretary of State Christian Herter and Soviet Foreign Minister

Gromyko fly into Geneva for the forthcoming foreign minister’s

conference and in airport statements, they agreed at least on

hopes for reducing international tension.

President Eisenhower welcomes King Baudouin of Belgian. He’s here on a 20-

day visit.

goodbye at Idlewild Airport, on his way back to England.

“Ladies and gentleman, I must now leave you and

return to Britain, my other country. I have had a happy

stay in the United States and I have been touched,

much touched by the warmth of your welcome… My

great friend, President Eisenhower has made my stay in

America a memorable one. We hold him in great regard

throughout Britain. With my old friends, I have talked of

many of our problems and I do not think that our views

are a great deal different…”

A Capital Airlines New York-to-Atlanta flight explodes in flight near Baltimore

killing all 31 aboard.

President Eisenhower serves notice on Congress that he wants not only a

balanced budget but also at least a small surplus to pay off some of the

$284,824,191,460.18 national debt.

Yankees batting slump. “Sure I’m worried and so are

the players. You’d be too of you were batting only .190

or so. Our main trouble is we haven’t been hittin’.”

“There’s nothin’ wrong with this club except that we ain’t

been winnin’.” “I’m not trying to alibi, but we lost seven

games by one run and two of these were in extra