Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris Foreign Ministers' deputies' meeting, Andrei Gromyko acted like a capricious traffic cop, changing red & green signals with bewildering speed. The 19th meeting to draw up an agenda for a Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference opened on the usual Red note: the West is the "aggressor . . . slanderous, absurd, preposterous." The meeting appeared headed for complete stalemate...
When the inter-American conference convenes in Washington today, there will be two items of "purely domestic" Argentine business that will not find their way on to the agenda. One is the suppression of the newspaper La Prensa by Peron's government, which became official last week; the other is the Argentine discovery of nuclear fusion, the process behind the hydrogen bomb...
Delegates from the Western nations, however, felt that the Communist-controlled nations were using the meetings for propaganda purposes. They stated that propaganda soeped into even the agenda and advertising material coming from Prague, the headquarters of the I.U.S...
...Paris only to draft a program for a future conference of their bosses, Jessup and his British and French colleagues simply wanted to list topics of discussion, in an order that did not prejudge their importance and in language that did not anticipate any decisions. Gromyko wanted a loaded agenda. He insisted that the first item must be "demilitarization" of Germany and safeguards against "remilitarization," the implication (which he expounded endlessly) being that the West was rearming Germany to attack Russia...
...week, in the pink marble Palais Rose, the wrangling continued. When the U.S. proposed that the agenda include a peace treaty for Austria, Gromyko agreed -provided Trieste was discussed also since, he argued, the allies had transformed Trieste into a base of aggression. Again & again, as he exhausted other arguments, Jessup tried to show Gromyko, with every conceivable shading and turn of phrase, that this kind of reasoning was not objective. Gromyko knew that. It was not his business to be objective...