Word: parleyed
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...caught the eye of General Secretary Morgan Phillips, a stocky ex-miner from Wales, one of Labor's shrewdest political brains and a politico who can sniff a budding political bloom a year off. Had not the Conservatives profited by Churchill's appeal for one more "parley at the summit"? Phillips dispatched a letter to Peking. Months later, at Geneva, China's Chou En-lai gave a benevolent go-ahead...
...news out of Britain this week is that Winston Churchill has given up his long hopes of a "parley at the summit" with Malenkov soon. His most influential Cabinet advisers talked him out of it-with an unexpected assist from, of all people, Vyacheslav Molotov...
...nostrils of old Winston Churchill, the whiff of peace was like a tonic. Why not a parley at the summit? He had declared in Washington that he still thought such a meeting might be profitable if the time was right. What better time than amidst the acclaim and relief of an Indo-Chinese peace? He put it to his Cabinet: he could meet Malenkov at Geneva, in the happy aftermath of agreement. Or Berlin, or Stockholm might provide a suitable rendezvous: Churchill was not too keen on going to Moscow, which might look too much like a pilgrimage. Eden objected...
...wreath upon Mahatma Gandhi's cremation ground. He paid his formal respects to President Prasad (whose office is decorated with autographed pictures of Eisenhower and Nixon). Then Chou got down to serious business with Nehru in a conference that many Asians equated with the Churchill-Eisenhower parley in Washington...
...policy, has little if any compensating effect. Tons of it pile up each day at the docks and airfields, giving an impression of massive power, then disappear. One of the mysteries of Indo-China is how so much U.S. equipment can be dispersed so quickly and so unnoticeably." Parley in the Village. The erosion was almost too far advanced even for Ngo Dinh Diem, the firm-minded new anti-Communist Prime Minister of Viet Nam (TIME, June 28). Diem arrived in Saigon from Paris last week promising independence, land reform and war against corruption-measures that a few months...