Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military situation was so far advanced toward victory that the future could no longer be brushed aside. From the preconference cables, extending over seven months, Franklin Roosevelt seems to have had the greatest sense of urgency about the meeting, although he never expressed a clear idea of what the agenda was to be. In preparation for the conference, the pharaonic hosts of specialists who toiled in the American bureaucracy sent up to the top of the pyramid briefing papers giving facts and recommendations on various points of policy...
Three times last week the British Cabinet met in secret session. The agenda was not the H-bomb and the state of the world, but the most tantalizing question in British politics: When will Churchill retire? With Sir Winston in the chair, a tentative decision was reached: he is to resign in the first week of April, and the Queen will ask Sir Anthony Eden to take over as Prime Minister...
Nonsense About Neutrality. There were two items on the agenda: 1) the Paris accords proper, restoring German sovereignty and inviting rearmament in NATO, and 2) the much-abused Saar agreement, signed by Adenauer and Mendès-France (TIME, Nov. 1). The Paris accords came first, and at once the Socialists weighed in with the made-in-Moscow argument that they have chosen to regard as their own: ratification of rearmament means the end of all hope of German reunification. Ex-Communist Herbert Wehner, 48, mastermind of the Socialist left wing (TIME, Feb. 28), talked up a Geneva-style conference...
...Turner Joy had been most bitter about Washington's order to accept a November 1951 Communist proposal to fix the battleline at that time as an armistice line. This, he said, "would constitute an immediate cease-fire on the basis of agreement on one item only of the agenda. Thus, the Communists would be insured against effects of future military operations while other agenda items were being discussed...General Ridgway strongly requested reconsideration of Washington's instructions...
Washington merely directed "early action"on a settlement, with one condition : that the Communists agree to the other agenda items within one month. Said Admiral Joy: "It was accepted by them with obvious relief...It was a serious mistake." Instead of one month, it took 20 months to get an armistice...