Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Background becomes foreground when the two men share a recuperative leave on the French Riviera. Sam Loggins meets and falls in love with Monique, a raven-haired American beauty who has been brought up in France. With knowing French jokes and urbane, intellectual patter, Britt Harris parley-voodoos her under his spell and out of Sam's arms, and even proposes marriage. The whole affair takes a bizarre turn when Monique tells him that her father was a Negro. Britt rejects her in a drunken fury, Monique commits suicide, heartbroken Sam resolves to kill Britt. The last quarter...
Last week Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser completed a little "parley at the summit" with his fellow Arabs of Syria and Saudi Arabia. Their announced achievements were few, but they underlined Nasser's aspiration to establish Egypt as the leader of a united Araby and even, if possible, over all Africa. His undeclared aim: to force the West out of the whole area. Nasser's radio, "Voice of the Arabs," reaches from Morocco to Iran, from Cyprus to Portuguese Mozambique, preaching subversion, rebellion, intransigence and hatred of "imperialists." In Cairo he has gathered together a kind...
Cairo newspapers headily called their session (held in Farouk's old palace) an Arabic "parley at the summit." It was quite a summit. Egypt's 38-year-old Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser, flush with achievement, had called the meeting and brought it new Middle East prestige: with his purchase of Communist arms and his inflammatory broadcasts to neighboring states, he had done as much as any man to seize opportunity on the troubled Mediterranean rim. As a show of his strength, he sent Soviet-made MIG fighters to escort Saudi Arabia's King Saud on his flight...
...Geneva spirit. In their hearts, the Western Big Three had not expected the Soviet Union to set the East Germans free, but Molotov had gone further than that. By espousing partition, he and the Soviet Union were openly disavowing Bulganin's promise, made at the summit parley, to find ways of uniting Germany and making Europe secure...
When President Eisenhower and Premier Bulganin smilingly shook hands at the summit parley last July, the Soviets got a propaganda windfall. Pictures of the occasion were blown up to enormous size and placarded throughout Eastern Europe as "proof" that the U.S. had made friends with the Soviet Union and no longer had any interest in setting the satellites free. Last week, when newsmen sought another smiling picture, this time of Vyacheslav Molotov chumming up with John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State said no. It was a challenge that no photographer could or would ignore...