Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tenth anniversary of the founding of the U.N. ; four of them - Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov, Great Britain's Harold Macmillan. France's Antoine Pinay and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles - expected to fix up the housekeeping and feel out the climate for the Parley at the Summit in Geneva...
...invitation but would not make a move without first consulting his Western allies, particularly the U.S. Nor would he go to Moscow himself until the offer had been explored in lower-level talks and an agenda fixed. Such preparations, he said, preclude a journey to Moscow until after the parley at the summit. Said one Christian Democratic Deputy admiringly: "A cooing dove on the rooftop won't make the Chancellor give up the sparrow he's got in the hand." Said President Eisenhower: "We have the utmost faith and confidence in him, and we know one thing...
...Soviet Union last week grudgingly accepted the West's invitation to a Big Four parley at the summit. This, and the British election, made it a table for four: France's Faure, Britain's Eden, President Eisenhower and some still unnamed Russian, presumably Premier Bulganin. The time and place of the meeting are still open questions. The Kremlin favors Vienna, where it might expect to make popular capital out of its concessions on the Austrian State Treaty; the West prefers Lausanne in neutral Switzerland, between July...
...Maidish Restrictions. Laborite taunts that the Tories had forced Sir Winston Churchill out of office seemed to get weight from Churchill's first speeches. Obviously he was irritated at the way Eden & Co. had reversed themselves and grabbed at his "parley at the summit" policy the instant he retired. But Sir Winston was too good a party man to let personal pique last the whole campaign. He tore into Labor "with all its paraphernalia of restrictions and regulations . . .," lauded Sir Anthony as "a statesman long versed in parliamentary and cabinet government," and urged Britons to give him "generous...
...parley at the summit put a crimp in Labor's attempt to show themselves more appalled than the Tories by the H-bomb...