Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intrinsic Need. The occasion for the President's diplomatic move was a letter from the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin, received just before the NATO meeting last month, renewing Communist propaganda demands for a parley at the summit. "I am ready," wrote Dwight Eisenhower this week, "to meet with the Soviet leaders. [But] these complex matters should be worked on in advance through diplomatic channels and by foreign ministers." This is necessary, the President emphasized, to ensure that a summit parley might, "in fact, hold good hope of advancing the cause of peace and justice in the world...
Hard Man, Hard Decisions. The current surge of anti-Dulles feeling comes principally because many of the free world's politicians and pundits are trying to sidestep the hard decisions of defense by agitating for a new parley at the summit with the Kremlin. Dulles is known for his unchanging distrust of Communist promises. "Dulles," said England's liberal Manchester Guardian, "is creating for himself something of the reputation of a professional anti-Soviet, someone to whom every action by the Soviet government appears suspect or worse by reason of its origin rather than by its nature. That...
...Kremlin Parley Examined...
...that area appears to be through negotiated settlement. The Moroccans, Tunisians, and Algerian nationalists have called for a four-part conference with the French to try and settle differences without forcing Algerian autonomy on France. But in the absence of a French government, it seems unlikely that the parley could be held before the United Nations begins debate on the subject...
...death put up by two of Yacef's lieutenants a month earlier (TIME, Sept. 9), the Legionnaires expected a machine-gun burst for an answer. Instead, Yacef called back: "I'll surrender if you treat me as a prisoner of war." Thus began a strange, two-hour parley during which Yacef added one more condition: "Don't take Zohra away from me. We don't want to be separated." Finally, at 5:30 he shouted: "Throw up our clothes. We're nearly naked." Then, hands overhead and properly dressed, Yacef and Zohra came down...