Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Union's top diplomat, and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd hammered out an East-West agreement for negotiations to begin in secret Friday. The decision to resort to secret diplomacy came after 12 sessions of stalemated debate on big issues...
...round table so that the Germans could the more easily join them on an equal basis, the Westerners insisted cagily on a square table: four sides, four powers. Instead of beginning their proceedings on time, the four ministers found themselves at the town house of Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, making sketch after sketch of possible seating arrangements on little scraps of yellow paper...
Couve de Murville and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd led the Western attack against the Soviet project...
...this would be to concede in advance what the argument is about: it would involve its recognition of the legitimacy of the East German Communist regime. The Western powers flatly refused, insisted that the two German delegations could appear in the Council Chamber only as "advisers." Britain's Selwyn Lloyd conferred privately with Gromyko, who would not budge...
British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko late this afternoon in an effort to resolve the disagreement but the effort failed...