Word: sovietizers
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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...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko set the style, soon became a topic of conversation among newsmen surpassing both the friskings by Swiss police and the frisky Swiss barmaids at press headquarters in Geneva's "Batiment Electoral." Landing in Geneva, Gromyko made a pithy statement specifically prepared to make pithy headlines. After that, in his dealings with the press, Gromyko set out to prove himself an amiable man of peace, erase the image of the sullen spokesman who so often barked nyet at the U.N. Security Council. While the Western foreign ministers tended to duck out of range, Gromyko smilingly...
...Soviet Earful. Beyond Gromyko's personal performance, the Russians showed they have finally mastered the main news-shaping device of mid-century diplomacy: the formal briefing. With the foreign ministers meeting behind closed doors, many correspondents found the post-session briefings their only source of solid news, other than the handouts of speeches for which they scrambled wildly...
...after day in his briefings, Soviet Press Officer Kharlamov repeated his claim that the East Germans had been made full participants-implying diplomatic recognition by the West. On both sides of the Iron Curtain some news outlets accepted the line. Cried Radio Warsaw: "Victory for the U.S.S.R." Cabled Correspondent Mamoru Kikuchi to the Japan Times: "East Germany has won de facto recognition." Such was the effect of the Communist pitch that at one point U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter felt obliged to spell out the West's attitude toward the East German regime during a conference session, persuaded...
...credit, the biggest part of the world's press was not fooled by the Soviet sleight of hand, played the news from Geneva pretty much down the middle. And the Western foreign ministers were determined to catch up with the Russians in handling the press. By week's end, Britain's Lloyd, France's Couve de Murville, and Herter were becoming increasingly available to newsmen. Said one of the foreign ministers to a group of newsmen: "It is for you we are working here-you and public opinion...