Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feels no need to consult anyone before he answers his mail. When Eisenhower's note proposing a U.N. summit conference arrived in Moscow, Khrushchev and some of his top aides were in conference with a group of visiting Austrians. "Will you excuse us?" said Nikita. "We have to draft a reply to Eisenhower's letter." In just 20 minutes, his acceptance note outlined, Khrushchev reappeared...
Meanwhile, as the U.S. waited for Khrushchev's answer to its invitation to a U.N. summit conference, home-front diplomats got to work on a crash basis to draft a comprehensive-if belated-U.S. policy for the Middle East. Essence of the plan: 1) a permanent new United Nations police force to keep the peace, monitor Arab radio broadcasts, news sheets, calls for assassinations, etc.; 2) a new international-assistance plan for Arab refugees still homeless after the Arab-Israel war of 1948; 3) a new international economic development plan. Considered but discarded to date: an arms embargo...
...question that can be foreseen, the Wilcox Bureau prepares "position papers," checks them out with other federal agencies concerned-Defense Department, Atomic Energy Commission, etc. After approval by Dulles and Eisenhower, a position paper becomes a statement of U.S. policy. In keeping with this written policy, Wilcox & Co. draft explicit instructions; if they call for introduction of a U.S. resolution, a draft is included...
...constitutional draft was strong medicine. Its fairly mild reception reflected the common recognition of the need for a strong cure, as well as the fact that half of France was on holiday. But overriding all else was the concern expressed even by Historian Siegfried that the alternative to De Gaulle might be a "civil war between a seditious threat and a Communist threat of a popular front...
...referendum Oct. 5, De Gaulle's constitution would give France a form of government unique in the Western world, a curious casserole of traditional French, British and U.S. institutions seasoned with just a soupçon of Salazar's Portugal. Implicit in almost every clause of the draft version is a profound determination to clip the wings of the negative and vacillating National Assembly which, under the Fourth Republic, used its untrammeled power to make and smash 25 governments in twelve years. Under the projected Fifth Republic, the Assembly would meet for only 5½ months a year...