Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Easters. He was working, he said, toward one end: "Peace on this earth, for which we all aspire." On the flight to Washington aboard the Columbine, he discussed with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles plans for the Big Four conference at Geneva on July 18: the long-heralded Parley at the Summit with the British, French and Soviet chiefs of state...
...four world capitals, statesmen were strapping on their diplomatic rucksacks, picking their Sherpas and testing their nonslip boots for the hazardous climb to the Parley at the Summit...
...Plan for Parley. In the Whist Room on the first floor, the Westerners presented to Vyacheslav Molotov their plan for the Parley at the Summit, advocating a four-to-six-day conference with no set agenda, to be presided over in turn by the U.S., France, Britain and the Soviet Union. To the Western plan, Molotov made no objection; his demeanor was that of a man who had declared peace and was waiting for the others to recognize...
...Soviet relaxation were unimportant. The U.S. noted soberly that Molotov's conciliation was born of Soviet weakness and Western pressure. This was the gist of Dulles' speech at San Francisco (see below), and the key to the frame of mind that President Eisenhower would carry to the Parley at the Summit. The U.S. waited to be shown what tangible results could be distilled from the new optimism at San Francisco...
...critically important in mid-1955 to have the U.S. picture in proper focus. As the Parley at the Summit approaches, the Eisenhower Administration reaches a mile stone. What his Administration has and has not done-both domestically and in foreign relations-will determine what the U.S. and the free world achieve at Geneva...