Week of November 22, 1955
Soviet Union - An announcement states six more
followers of the late Russian secret police chief
Lavrenty Beria
. A monitored broadcast said the six
men were shot following a treason trial in September.
Russia says it has set off “the most powerful of all”
hydrogen bomb explosions. The size of the blast
indicated it was a hydrogen bomb. The first known
Russian H-bomb blast occurred in 1953.
In Bombay - Nikita Khrushchev declares before a
cheering Indian audience that Russia will not beg for coexistence, but would fight
for it. “I don’t like the capitalistic system and when I speak about coexistence it is
not for the purpose of continuing the system. But I give de facto recognition to
capitalism and grant that it does exist.”’
President Eisenhower and his top strategists meet at Camp David in the Catoctin
Mountains.
The United States says it plans to explode new H-bomb models at its Pacific test
grounds next spring which will rival or surpass Russia’s new super weapon.
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) rules that racial segregation in train
and bus travel between the states is unlawful. It ordered an end to the separation
of white persons and Negroes on interstate trains and buses and in public waiting
rooms serving the transportation lines. The ICC ruling has no effect on intrastate
travel and 13 states have laws requiring segregation. These are Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina and Virginia. In these states, the railroads
would still have to supply separate waiting rooms and separate passenger
accommodations for whites and Negroes.
Thanksgiving - President Eisenhower counts the blessings of returning health
and a happy gathering on Thanksgiving Day. He joined his grandchildren and
their pony and cart.
Atomic sub Nautilus logs 25,000 miles without
refueling. - The farthest a vessel has ever traveled on
its original fuel.
