55 years ago/June 16, 1967

In Washington Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin met US Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. to talk about the visit of Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. Kosygin arrived at the US on the next day to the fifth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly which was requested by the USSR on the ground that – according to their opinion – Israel occupied Arab territories despite the Security Council’s demands for cease-fire. In the conversation the two ambassadors talked about the war as well, Thompson mentioned that they could have prevented the conflict if the Soviet Union had cooperated with them. He also said he “would not like to be in the shoes of their military attaché in Cairo”. In his answer Dobrynin tried to find excuses for the Egyptians and suggested that the US should have known about the Israeli attack, what Thompson denied “vigorously”. The Time Magazine was issued on this day with the picture of Moshe Dayan. There was a summary of the war in the issue and some more articles in connection with the conflict as well.