Word: herter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's official family and staff, ranged around the big hexagonal table in the White House's Cabinet room, Vice President Nixon got a rare burst of applause for his hour-long report on his fortnight behind the Iron Curtain. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, back from Geneva and scheduled to take off this week for a meeting of the American republics' foreign ministers in Santiago, Chile, reported on the Big Four foreign ministers' conference on Berlin, which ended in stalemate after 65 days of futile negotiations (see FOREIGN NEWS). But the Geneva gloom...
Beyond Stalemate. By this time, most Cabinet members had been filled in on the steps that led to the Eisenhower exchange of visits. The story: Back in June, when the Geneva conference on Berlin recessed for three weeks, Secretary of State Herter decided that there was little real prospect of anything but a stalemate at Geneva. Looking ahead to the conference's end, Herter saw two possibilities, both unpleasant: a dangerous hotting-up of the Berlin crisis or a face-losing Western agreement to go to the summit despite President Eisenhower's public avowals that progress at Geneva...
...began a new flurry of sessions, including some bearing the repellent name of "working teas." Inevitably Gromyko sidled up to Herter and privately suggested giving ground a little here or there, to keep the talk going. The West Germans, alarmed at the possibility of last-minute "ill-considered concessions," sent a hurry-up call for West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt to appear at Geneva. They need not have worried. The last days were spent in,exchange of poles-apart position papers, in discussing how to counter specious last-minute Soviet offers in deciding whether to recess...
Thus did Andrew Berding, U.S. State Department briefing officer, thumbnail last week the immobility and futility of the Big Four sessions at Geneva. Secretary of State Christian Herter confided to aides that he felt "degraded" by having to sit and listen to Andrei Gromyko's laboriously unyielding speeches. At last came the point when, over coffee in the U.S. villa, Herter told Gromyko that he was leaving Geneva in a week-to attend a meeting of the Organization of American States in Santiago, Chile-come what might...
Would Gromyko agree to the conference's continuing without Herter, on deputy levels? "I do not like the idea," said Gromyko. What, continued Herter, did Gromyko suggest? "Let's keep talking and try to find a solution by Wednesday...