Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...timing was all-important. For many months the U.S. had been resisting the idea of a "conference at the summit." Those months were the critical period when the issue of rearming West Germany hung in the balance. The U.S.S.R. made it menacingly plain that it would do everything it could and dared to prevent German rearmament. The Soviet attitude stirred neutralists and others to support a "conference at the summit" as a substitute for German rearmament. This sentiment was so strong that even Sir Winston Churchill repeatedly urged such a conference, if only to prove that Russian peace talk...
What will the men at the summit talk about? There is no agreed agenda, but the main issues that logically would come up are clear...
...discussion. No agenda or plan. No subject barred but none listed. He hopes to sense the atmosphere in the Soviet delegation, clarify his own mind a bit, discover whether the new Soviet leaders are "sincerely hoping to relieve tensions." He wouldn't even have the men "at the summit" try to set up an agenda for the foreign ministers. He would only try to define the broad areas "in which people would start to work." This seems like a dangerously informal approach to the most important international conference in ten years. It defies all rules of diplomacy as well...
...those splendid diplomatic parties in Moscow where Soviet leaders permit themselves a few jovial words with Western correspondents, Russia's Premier Bulganin was asked whether there might be a "parley at the summit" after the Foreign Ministers met. "Ask Eisenhower and Eden about the date," he replied. "I have made my position clear." He had already said that he "took a positive attitude" toward Big Four talks...
...atomic bomb . . ." ¶ Japan's 1,139-year-old Buddhist Shingon (True Word) sect became the first in the country to form a labor union with priests as members. Twelve shaven-headed apprentice priests last week joined office clerks in the "Temple of the Paramount Summit Labor Union" and drew up a contract complete with a strike clause. Main purpose: job security and better working conditions...