Word: parley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles correctly foresaw that the Communists would get short-term, tactical advantages from last summer's Parley at the Summit. The resumption of Big Four contacts and the easing of tensions, the Secretary reasoned, would somewhat weaken the will of the Western democracies to take the hard decisions needed to maintain a posture of strength; the democracies, moreover, would feel freer to indulge their petty quarrels of long standing. Such a sequence has already followed, amid the looping longings of "The Spirit of Geneva...
...protégé of wily Premier Chou Enlai. From the U.S., after firm final guidance from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, went Ambassador Ural Alexis Johnson, 46, able career diplomat and specialist on northeast Asia. This will be no glare-bathed conference on general principles like the Parley at the Summit; chances are that it will be a long, quiet conference grinding away at details...
...broad objectives. The U.S. wants Red China to 1) agree to adopt the U.S. principle of "no recourse to force," 2) order its marauding pilots to stop shooting down peaceful Western planes, and 3) join the U.S. in examining the possibility of ceasefire in the Formosa Strait. Should the parley at the base camp progress smoothly, Dulles might later be prepared to meet Chou Enlai...
...sampling of Peking's press and radio comment showed that Red China was already picturing the Little Two parley as a pathway towards its traditional objectives: 1) surrender of Formosa, 2) membership for Red China in the U.N., 3) "strict fulfillment of the 1954 Geneva treaty on Indo-China," meaning that South Viet Nam must be surrendered in July 1956 by the device of rigged and improperly supervised elections. Communist propagandists suggested that if the U.S. persisted in stalling, Red China might have to make a show of force against the vulnerable offshore islands...
...judgment that the prospects of a lasting peace, with justice, well-being and broader freedom, are brighter. The dangers of the overwhelming tragedy of modern war are less." At 8:05 Ike boarded the Columbine with Mamie and son John, flew off westward into the bright evening sky. The Parley at the Summit was over...