Word: parley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week they were busy briefing their delegations, battening down their philosophies, packing planeloads of equipment for the Parley at the Summit...
Across the Atlantic to the parley will fly some 150 delegates from the U.S.: President Eisenhower (in the Columbine late this week), Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, such European specialists as the State Department's Livingston Merchant and Douglas MacArthur II (nephew of the general), such "unofficial delegates" as Presidential Advisers Harold Stassen and Nelson Rockefeller, backstopped by Filipino mess-boys from the White House...
...first and second floors of the 20-year-old Palais des Nations to make way for the carpenters of the Big Four. Technicians uncoiled miles of signal wire, installed cable heads and rigged the automatic elevators so that no unauthorized person could step off at the Parley at the Summit...
...Parley at the Summit will have no fixed agenda, but both sides will arrive in Geneva with a well-defined set of objectives. On the eve of the conference the basic outline of these objectives is clear...
Each Chief of State will present his country's accounting for the tensions that perplex the world. Then, the parley is set up to resolve itself into a continuing conference of committees -on Germany, on European security, on atomic control, probably on trade, possibly on the Far East (though to this the U.S. is opposed...