Word: parleyed
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...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...
...topic of the Parley at the Summit will be disarmament-symbol of the worldwide yearning for peace...
...merely chasing himself." But the President promised the people he would persevere "because, from my mind, to my mind, it is perfectly stupid for the world to continue to put so much in these agencies and instrumentalities that cost us so much . . ." In preliminary talks before the parley, the U.S. delegation significantly stopped talking about "disarmament" in favor of a new phrase-"limitation of arms."; The U.S. attitude is that total disarmament and controls are not now enforceable; the U.S. does believe-though it does not specify how-that atomic arms might be controlled to the point that the delivery...