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President Eisenhower's greatest foreign-policy blunder, Harriman implies, was his conduct at last summer's Parley at the Summit at Geneva: "It was. without question, right and proper that he should have gone there'. . . But it was of the greatest importance that he make no mistake . . . The impression was conveyed to the world that the cold war was over . . . The President gave every evidence of personal trust in the Kremlin leaders and even went so far as to credit the Russians with a desire for peace no less earnest than that of the West . . . Tensions relaxed...
...quarrels in peace at home. First Khrushchev and Mikoyan went to Red China to insure Mao's friendship with promises of new industrial supplies. Then they ate crow at the lean table of the renegade Tito, where Nikita stayed drunk most of the time. After that came the parley at the summit, which they bought into cheaply by freeing Austria. But for all the sweet talk at Geneva, the Russians were unwilling (or felt no need) to make any real end to the cold war in Europe, or agree to any solution of the big problem, which was Germany...
Background becomes foreground when the two men share a recuperative leave on the French Riviera. Sam Loggins meets and falls in love with Monique, a raven-haired American beauty who has been brought up in France. With knowing French jokes and urbane, intellectual patter, Britt Harris parley-voodoos her under his spell and out of Sam's arms, and even proposes marriage. The whole affair takes a bizarre turn when Monique tells him that her father was a Negro. Britt rejects her in a drunken fury, Monique commits suicide, heartbroken Sam resolves to kill Britt. The last quarter...
Last week Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser completed a little "parley at the summit" with his fellow Arabs of Syria and Saudi Arabia. Their announced achievements were few, but they underlined Nasser's aspiration to establish Egypt as the leader of a united Araby and even, if possible, over all Africa. His undeclared aim: to force the West out of the whole area. Nasser's radio, "Voice of the Arabs," reaches from Morocco to Iran, from Cyprus to Portuguese Mozambique, preaching subversion, rebellion, intransigence and hatred of "imperialists." In Cairo he has gathered together a kind...
Cairo newspapers headily called their session (held in Farouk's old palace) an Arabic "parley at the summit." It was quite a summit. Egypt's 38-year-old Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser, flush with achievement, had called the meeting and brought it new Middle East prestige: with his purchase of Communist arms and his inflammatory broadcasts to neighboring states, he had done as much as any man to seize opportunity on the troubled Mediterranean rim. As a show of his strength, he sent Soviet-made MIG fighters to escort Saudi Arabia's King Saud on his flight...