Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cure in the Georgia sun. But Augusta last week was cold, rainy and damp by turns, and though Ike got in a couple of rounds of soggy golf, the trip was not much of a vacation. Even before he could swing a club he got the news that his summit plans were coming unstuck and he called a press conference at Augusta's Richmond Hotel for next morning...
Though he never said so flatly, Ike was clearly nettled by the word from France that President de Gaulle was seeking to defer the proposed program for a Western summit early next month and the follow-up of an East-West meeting in December (see FOREIGN NEWS). "Time," said he pointedly, "is slipping by ... Fashions [of diplomacy] have seemed to change a little bit ... I would prefer always . . . to do these things by diplomatic means, and then finally get heads of government agreement." This time the President reversed his position that preliminary low-level talks must precede a summit meeting...
...Gaulle with the exasperated statement: "General, you are a most impossible man to deal with." Macmillan was not heard to repeat the remark last week, but the sentiment may well have crossed his mind. For last week, all by himself, Charles de Gaulle seemed to have succeeded in postponing summit talks, perhaps until next spring...
...week began, Washington was talking clearly of a December summit, to be preceded-perhaps at the end of October-by a pre-summit planning meeting in Paris between Eisenhower, Macmillan, De Gaulle and Adenauer. Then, through "presidential channels" (a category of communication with an even higher security rating than "top secret"), came word from De Gaulle to Ike that he thought summit talks should wait until next spring, and that in the meantime, he had invited Nikita Khrushchev to come visit him in Paris. To his Augusta press conference, Eisenhower sighed: "I was thinking we could do this...
Price of Admission. Why was De Gaulle holding off? In Britain, eager for a quick summit, the chagrined press cried "Vanity." De Gaulle's invitation to Khrushchev (which Khrushchev promptly accepted) was similarly treated by British editorialists as the general's wish to even the score with Macmillan and Eisenhower. Other critics suggested that De Gaulle wants to postpone the summit until France explodes its own A-bomb-which seems to be having troubles-so that it would not be the only nation at the summit outside the nuclear club...