Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with "Mr. Europe." First item on the agenda was the election of a new president to replace Jean Monnet, the indefatigable little Frenchman who first proposed the Coal-Steel pool and who has done most to make it work. Monnet resigned last fall in protest against the scuttling of EDC in the French National Assembly and the trend toward nationalism throughout Western Europe. Last month, hoping to stage a comeback for himself on the European idea, Monnet decided to seek re-election after all. But when his name came up last week as a possible French nominee...
Private Misgivings. All four participants publicly proclaimed their eagerness to have a go at negotiating a relaxation of tensions, but with the air of men trying to gratify a universal longing rather than expecting dramatic results. Despite all the rustling of policy papers and the wheeling up of agenda, each of the Big Four conferees has his own private misgivings. Russia's stood out starkly in its note of acceptance...
Wanted: an Agenda. What the Big Four would talk about, no one seemed sure. Moscow hinted at Formosa, but the U.S. said no; Washington suggested the Soviet satellites, but Molotov promptly replied that this would be "interference with the internal affairs of other states...
...imposing agenda: seven each by Wagner and Richard Strauss, four by Mozart and one each by Handel and Pfitzner...
...suggested a compromise. The foreign ministers could meet first, to iron out the agenda and make sure the Russians had no opportunity to disrupt the top-level meeting by a sudden demand, for example, for the presence of Red China...