Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pike caught Dr. Smith by transatlantic telephone before the conference had begun, and ordered him to erase the item from the agenda. Later proof of the laxity of British security gave Strauss ample justification for his fight. Nonetheless Lilienthal partisans were furious and still pooh-poohed the alarm...
...informed the other allies that he regarded the arrangements for the conference as "perfectly clear." Lodge cited Article 60 of the armistice agreement, which provides that a conference "of a higher level of both sides be held" within three months after the armistice was signed (July 27). The conference agenda: "To settle through negotiation . . . the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea, the peaceful settlement of the Korean question, etc." In the U.S. view, said Lodge, "both sides" means what it did at Panmunjom: them and us. "One side consists of the nations who had armed forces fighting under...
They went through Dante's house and discussed the Inferno. Then one of the women insisted on visiting Elizabeth Barrett Browning's grave, which was not on the official agenda at all. In Ferney, on the French-Swiss border, they saw Voltaire's chateau and talked about Candide. In Augsburg, a Lutheran pastor who spoke no English gave them a lecture on the Reformation, and they tried but failed to get into the monastery where Luther once lived. Next on the list was Faust, but since Weimar is behind the Iron Curtain, they had to settle...
EACH side made important concessions. The Communists suffered their first setbacK at the truce table even before the agenda was adopted in July 1951. The enemy wanted to discuss withdrawal of all "foreign" (U.N. and Chinese) troops from Korea. The U.N. negotiators refused, and the matter was left off the agenda for possible solution at a post-truce political conference. The second defeat of the Communists was the breaking down of their demand for a truce line on the 38th parallel. The third-and greatest-was their failure to win repatriation of prisoners unwilling to return to Communist control...
...ministers failed to agree on a top-level, open-agenda meeting with the Russians, and the press generally interpreted this as a victory for the American view. London's anti-American New Statesman and Nation was particularly bitter in charging Acting British Foreign Secretary Lord Salisbury with "surrender" to the Americans...