Word: parley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Churchill had been bitterly disappointed because his own attempt to find a clear-cut solution-in a Big Four "parley at the summit"-had been cold-shouldered by the U.S. and France, stonily ignored by the Soviet Union. It had even been labeled "mischievous" by the London Economist. But Sir Winston would no more give up his project than he would part with the Empire. "I asked for very little," he told the Tories. "I held out no exciting hopes about Russia. I thought that friendly, informal, personal talks between the leading figures . . . might do good and could not easily...
...vote-getting possibilities of this broad public conviction form an irresistible temptation to British politicians. Aneurin Bevan was the first to recognize them; Churchill, his mortal foe, tapped them in his famed Locarno speech in which he called for a "parley at the summit" (TIME, May 18). Yet it is a milder man than either who most sums up this strange new British brand of neo-neutralism in the cold war. His name is Clement Attlee...
...British Commonwealth countries, the conference would be a failure if Russia were not there. The British hope to convert the Korean parley into a de facto Big Five conference and talk magniloquently of driving a wedge between Moscow and Peking. This week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold implied that the British approach was "cooperative and constructive," and Cabot Lodge, bowing to the inevitable, accepted a compromise that was a U.S. capitulation in everything but name. In deference to the U.S., the Assembly might not actually invite Russia to the conference. It could simply recommend that a Soviet representative be seated...
Russians Bearing Concessions? An invisible fourth party at the conference was West Germany's Chancellor Adenauer, who sent a letter advocating that the foreign ministers invite the Russians to a parley. Adenauer argued that such an invitation would help him in the German election and would help the ratification...
...State Dean Acheson called in the French and British ambassadors, and talked consecutively to them for an hour and ten minutes. Soon the French backed down a bit, said that they propose a low-level conference of ambassadors or even lesser officials, not a full-dress foreign ministers' parley; they also want a tightly restricted agenda which Russia would have to agree to in advance. Next step: a meeting of the Big Three foreign ministers in London later this month. Originally Dean Acheson intended to visit England only to be made an honorary Doctor of Civil Law at Oxford...