Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister, seems to have yielded scarcely an inch to make a stopgap, face-saving Berlin solution possible. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter of the United States, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd of Britain and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville of France have stood firm on their starting positions...
Giving away nothing, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko tried a feeble side game of trying to drive a wedge between Britain and the other Western powers. The Russians lost no opportunity to point out to U.S., French and West German diplomats how well Gromyko and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd got along, regularly praised Lloyd's speeches as "reasonable" and "well thought...
...beyond tactical differences among the Western powers, the Russian ploy was successful enough to provoke London's BBC into an irate accusation that the West Germans were conducting a "whispering campaign" against the British delegation. But with the foreign ministers themselves, the Russian maneuver was a flat failure: Selwyn Lloyd argued the West's case as stoutly as anyone. When Gromyko approached Lloyd privately to reiterate Khrushchev's proposals for Berlin, Lloyd coldly replied: "If that's the best you can offer, it's a poor way to start negotiations...
...Blanc by Moonlight. Even to Gromyko it was clear that all this was not going to get the conference far. "When," he asked Selwyn Lloyd, "are we going to stop all this public talking?" The answer was whenever one side or the other asked for secret sessions-an implied indication that it was ready to make concessions. But France's incisive Maurice Couve de Murville, strongly seconded by Herter, argued that since it was Russia that had instigated the conference by fomenting the Berlin crisis, it was up to the Russians to make the first move...
...Selwyn Lloyd - I have studied this [Soviet] draft peace treaty carefully. It has one merit. It is in itself a refutation of Mr. Gromyko's principal criticism of the Western peace plan: that it is a package. The Soviet draft shows clearly how interrelated are these various problems-reunification of Germany, security provisions, an interim status for Berlin . . . The Soviet treaty would be a Diktat . . . What the Soviet government is doing in effect is to show that they wish to impose terms on Germany as was done at Versailles...