Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...search for an agenda for the proposed Big Four conference, the Foreign Ministers' deputies, meeting in Paris, have so far spoken more than a million words. This week-the seventh week since the talks began-an American diplomat noted: "I do not have any more indications on Russian intentions than I had on the first day when we sat down in the Palais Rose. At times I almost have the impression that Gromyko himself does not know exactly what the Kremlin is driving at in these talks. So little is accomplished that I do not have the impression...
...large group of the faculty has been against the whole thing right from the start. A petition has circulated asking Provost Buck to put the question on the faculty meeting agenda. Buck complied and the subsequent gatherings were among the most spirited on record. Professors who rarely attended seldom contributed to faculty meetings showed up in force. "This was the first time I ever spoke at a faculty meeting," one senior professor commented afterwards...
...this week began, French Delegate. Alexandre Parodi hopefully outlined an agenda intended, he said, "to marry both the Western and Russian viewpoints." But Gromyko did not like the order of the items. Moreover, said the Russian, what about the U.S. bases in Europe? Once more the light...
Suddenly the light turned green. Russia had some new propositions: it would drop its insistence on discussing alleged violations of the Potsdam agreement, drop its demand that German rearmament be a separate agenda subject, agree to talk not only about disarming but also about the level of existing armaments...
...said Gromyko, he wanted the agenda to include the Atlantic pact, U.S. bases in Europe and the Near East, Italian treaty violations, and the question of denazification and treatment of war criminals in Germany and Austria...