Word: lugano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West by surprise, but once the haze of off-the-cuff interpretations cleared away, the move seemed logical, the motives obvious. On Nov. 3, the Kremlin had issued a heavy-handed note harshly spurning a U.S.-British-French 'proposal for a Big Four foreign-ministers' meeting in Lugano, Switzerland. That note, apparently drafted by underlings in Foreign Minister Molotov's absence, was patently a blunder. Its truculence "shocked the world," as the U.S. State Department put it; any neutralist could plainly see that the Russians did not want to reach agreement with the West...
...evening early in the week, ambassadors of the three Western powers were summoned to the Moscow Foreign Ministry. Each got an 18-page diplomatic note. It was Russia's answer to their proposal for a four-power ministers' conference at Lugano, Switzerland. The Russians did not even reply to the Lugano invitation, but made it clear that Moscow had reverted to-if it ever really slid away from-the truculent line of Stalin's last year...
...Russia, they brushed aside Russia's wordily evasive request for a conference of the Big Four and Red China, and suggested again that Molotov sit down with the Big Three Foreign Ministers to discuss a final peace settlement for Germany and Austria. Time and place: Nov. 9, in Lugano. They were all agreed that Russia is afraid to get caught now in negotiations over Germany and would not accept the invitation, but in the world of diplomacy the mail must...
...best so far. It was a crisp, polite invitation to the Soviet Foreign Minister to meet with his Big Three opposite numbers to seek "a solution of the German and Austrian problems," and it got right down to the brass tacks of time (Oct. 15) and place (Lugano, Switzerland). The note did not try to meet attacks made in previous Soviet notes, and it made no attack on Soviet acts or motives...
Died. Alfred Neumann, 56, German poet (Songs of Laughter and Despair), historical romancer (The Devil, The Patriot, The Gaudy Empire), whose contempt for tyrants and dictators (Louis XI, Paul I, Napoleon III) caused Hitler to banish both him and his works from Germany; of a heart ailment; in Lugano, Switzerland. The Devil, an extraordinary reworking of Quentin Durward into a psychological flesh-creeper, was a bestseller of the late '20s; The Patriot, also a bestseller, was made twice into a movie (first with Emil Jannings, later with Harry Baur...