Word: parley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference, Gromyko added, should handle the housekeeping details of the summit, i.e., time, place, agenda, and should be convened in April. Gromyko did not say whether the foreign ministers ought also to explore the prospects for agreement on points of substance-another U.S. condition-to find out whether a parley at the summit should be held...
...discussed and prospects of agreement thoroughly canvassed before any new impression of thaw is created. For example, the U.S., as the President told the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin in January, wants to talk about: 1) reunification of Germany by free elections-agreed to by the U.S.S.R. at the parley at the summit in July 1955 but since ignored by the Russians; 2) the right of satellite peoples to choose their own form of government; 3) a package disarmament plan linking foolproof stoppage of nuclear tests to foolproof stoppage of nuclear production; 4) outer space for peaceful purposes...
Whatever the cause, the President said, if the Russians really want a big-power parley at the summit, they should be willing to discuss agenda topics proposed by the U.S. But if the Russians insist on restricting agenda topics, then "we would . . . end up in the ludicrous posture of just glaring silently at each other across the table...
...shuffle of letters to Western chiefs of government and cocktail-party comments to Western diplomats, the Kremlin has been working hard to spread the notion that a parley at the summit is inevitable-on the Kremlin's terms. Newsmen in Europe and Washington have helped the notion along by reporting surges of what was called "world opinion" in favor of a parley to "end" the cold war. When the U.S., anxious not to repeat the letdown of 1955's spirit of Geneva, insisted that points at issue be explored at the foreign minister or ambassadorial level before...
Dulles moved on to blunt the newest anti-Dulles campaign: the argument that he is too rigid an anti-Communist to permit a parley with the U.S.S.R. "The truth is quite the contrary," said he. "We do want a summit meeting provided the proper conditions obtain. " The proper conditions: preliminary meetings, held in secret at diplomatic levels, in which the possibilities of real agreements can be explored and in which the sense of urgency of the free world need not be let down. Said Dulles: "There are, I know, many who feel that the cold war could be ended...