Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both the nation and the world, 1955 may well be known as the year of the Great Cure-All. As people look away from the Government's short-lived promises of Salk vaccine for all, they turn now to another panacea--the Conference at the Summit. But amid all the talk of top-level meetings as medicine for the world's political ills, a most important fact has been only lightly brushed over: the Russians have not yet accepted Western invitations to confer...
...sometimes on factors as weak as personal bonds. The papier-mache treaty structure of the decade following the first world war and the conferences of the second, all the result of "high-level conversations," are indisputable proof of this handicap. The second grave defect is that meetings at the summit often will produce only propaganda and enmity. In actuality, the forthcoming four-power meeting will not be mainly among the heads of governments. Instead, it will be the first of what may be a series of foreign-minister conferences, cluttered in this case by the presence of four distinguished spectators...
...Summit Conference is only a symbol that nations are willing to search for solutions by peaceful means. The moment that chiefs of state cease being symbols and start to encroach upon the responsibilities of professional diplomats, effective diplomacy breaks down. Alternatives become rigid platforms from which there is no retreat with honor. The normal process of give and take is impossible...
...present time, a top-level meeting would be extremely useful if it could separate the insignificant, petty disputes from those which cause deep international division. For this purpose, only a few days of summit discussion are necessary. Any attempt to reach binding decisions would only emphasize present divisions. The best that can come from a big-four conference is an atmosphere a little more mellow for the quiet, serious business of conventional diplomacy that follows...
...parley at the summit put a crimp in Labor's attempt to show themselves more appalled than the Tories by the H-bomb...