Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...places at the talks; by last week nearly 100 were seated around the table, and, transporting them by limousines having proved impossible, they moved from hotels to sessions in chartered streetcars. Meetings were a mad mélange of inflammatory speeches, door-slamming walkouts, rival press conferences and angry communiqués as 60 Congolese parties and innumerable tribal chiefs jockeyed for position in the race to lead the vast new nation-to-be. One delegate tried to restrain the others by quoting an old tribal saying: "He who tries to eat before the others burns himself." Chief rival...
...brief communiqué ending the three-day exchanges barely mentioned the Berlin question, and when the Germans tried afterward to indicate that the Western Four had taken a stronger attitude on Berlin, another Western minister rejoined: "No-but we have not taken a weaker stand." This same minister, asked to say what the big confrontation accomplished, quipped that it had "relaxed tensions between the allies." In the end, every issue of substance was referred back to working committees for "further study." Working committees exist for just that; what miffed the members of these committees was that the Western Four...