Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What will they talk about? For four years, from Asia to Europe to America, Protestant and Orthodox leaders have been exchanging memoranda, sifting agenda and preparing to discuss six themes, for which the Assembly will divide itself into six commissions: 1) Our Oneness in Christ and Our Disunity as Churches, 2) The Mission of the Church to Those Outside Her Life, 3) The Responsible Society in a World Perspective, 4) Christians in the Struggle for World Community, 5) Racial and Ethnic Tensions, 6) The Laity: the Christian in His Vocation. The very fact that 161 Protestant and Orthodox communions...
Invitation to Peking. Eight weeks from now the Ministers will gather again in Geneva. Their agenda is already agreed upon, and at U.S. insistence, confined to specific issues: the Korean peace conference (which 48 days of wrangling at Panmunjom failed to bring about), and "the problem of restoring peace in Indo-China...
Judged by the agenda, Berlin had accomplished little. But there was more to Berlin than agenda. The Western ministers had found common ground, and proved it more solid than they knew. They left an opponent stripped of pretense. Russia could no longer pretend that it had any intention of uniting Germany or evacuating Austria...
Last week in Berlin, Molotov entertained a select group of top East German Communists. The scraps of his speech which leaked out to a TIME correspond ent are revealing. "The focus of Soviet policy is in Asia," Molotov said. "The agenda of this conference has been decided with the concurrence of our Chinese ally . . . The united front of the Western Powers will fail first in Asia . . . The real danger to peace is in the Far East...
...successfully negotiated questions equally touchy, such as plans for the administration of railroad stores and refugee bank deposits. The United States should press for further agreement; until the tension in Kashmir is eased, Nehru's protests will continue. The Kashmir negotiations should find an immediate place on the U.N. agenda...