Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plan for Parley. In the Whist Room on the first floor, the Westerners presented to Vyacheslav Molotov their plan for the Parley at the Summit, advocating a four-to-six-day conference with no set agenda, to be presided over in turn by the U.S., France, Britain and the Soviet Union. To the Western plan, Molotov made no objection; his demeanor was that of a man who had declared peace and was waiting for the others to recognize...
...meetings should not be hamstrung with a formal agenda. Each chief of government should introduce relevant questions; each should present in turn his own ideas of the causes of world tension...
...Uffizi is as familiar as Mona Lisa's smile. A far more recent phenomenon is the ceremonial trip to U.S. museums. So much topflight art has funneled into U.S. collections in recent years that today a tour of major U.S. museums has become a must on the agenda of many a foreign visitor, including Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth. Japan's ex-Premier Yoshida. Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab. Arriving in Washington on state business. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer went to the National Gallery of Art for his fourth visit in three U.S. trips...
...such hurry. Adenauer told his Cabinet that he welcomed the invitation but would not make a move without first consulting his Western allies, particularly the U.S. Nor would he go to Moscow himself until the offer had been explored in lower-level talks and an agenda fixed. Such preparations, he said, preclude a journey to Moscow until after the parley at the summit. Said one Christian Democratic Deputy admiringly: "A cooing dove on the rooftop won't make the Chancellor give up the sparrow he's got in the hand." Said President Eisenhower: "We have the utmost faith...
Although no formal agenda for the talks has been set, the subject matter is plain for all to see. Russia wants Japan to declare itself neutralist, and has in its power, if it wishes, the ability to pay the Japanese a formidable price, to wit: return of Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands; entry into the U.N.; return of 10,000 Japanese P.W.s and "war criminals"; trade and fishing concessions in Siberian waters. Some or all of these inducements, plus the "normalized relations" promised to the Japanese electorate by Premier Ichiro Hatoyama last February, might bring the neutralist pledge...