Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Dwight Eisenhower stepped off the Columbine in Geneva, 18 hours later, the people of the U.S. were already beginning to say special prayers for the success of his mission. As Switzerland's President Max Petitpierre welcomed him to the glistening city of the Parley at the Summit (see FOREIGN NEWS), Ike recalled an earlier and different mission to Europe. "Some eleven years ago," he said, "I came to Europe with an army, a navy, an air force, with a single purpose: to destroy Naziism . . . This time I come armed with something far more powerful: the good will...
...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...
During the weekend, Major John Eisenhower, his wife and their three children arrived from Fort Belvoir, Va. for a family reunion at the farm-the last before the President, accompanied by the First Lady, departs for Geneva and next week's Parley at the Summit...
...Announced that he would address the nation Friday night at 8:15 E.D.T. on the national radio-TV networks. Subject: his "hopes for accomplishment" at the Parley at the Summit...