Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they sat down in the Quai d'Orsay's gilded Salon de Beauvais in Paris to work out an allied reply to the latest Communist gambits, it was U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk who was most eager for action. All the ministers agreed that, if need be, the West would have to risk war. But all still hoped to find a formula for peace; all now recognized that major negotiations with Russia-perhaps even a summit meeting-would be necessary before the year...
Sihanouk is eager to see an end to the tension between the U.S. and Red China, but his suggested solution is not one likely to appeal to Washington: "I think it necessary and even urgent that Washington and Peking should reconcile-the price is Formosa. Red China will never accept a compromise over Formosa, and I wouldn't be stupid enough to propose one. Besides, the Laotian affair has taught me that the role of mediator is most ungrateful: one receives blows from all sides and is suspected by everyone...
...exaggerated Russian responsibility for the Berlin crisis. Khrushchev, who could well remember Stalingrad,* well understood Jack Kennedy's pointed reference to the beleaguered city, and he might indeed think twice about his intransigence, and suggest negotiations at which he could save face while backing down. The U.S. is eager to help him to that conclusion; last week Secretary of State Dean Rusk said dryly that the U.S. diplomatic position on Berlin "would not be defensive...
...with a reputation "more weighty than that of the author of Vile Bodies"-Winston Churchill himself. On the other hand, he argued, Waugh's "Ceremony of the Opening of the Wounds" could only hurt Wodehouse. Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse and with busy spade and blazing arclights, goes smartly to work in the graveyard of the past...
Ever since Britain diffidently began knocking at the door, the six nations of Europe's booming Common Market have found themselves at slight odds. Eager to have Britain in to offset French-German hegemony in the market, the three Benelux nations have tried to slow the pace of togetherness. France's Charles de Gaulle, who dreams of using the Common Market to Gallicize Europe, has tried to force the pace to discourage Britain. A "political" summit meeting of the heads of state of the Six, scheduled last spring, was called off because of all the intramural squabbling...