Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision on the timing of a summit conference to follow up those talks is expected in 10 days or two weeks...
...combining these domestic promises with aggressive campaigning, the Labour Party has stolen the offensive. Trying to dismiss such promises as "auctioneering," the Conservatives are looking for strength in the closing days of the campaign to the improved prospect of a summit meeting. The current truck strike should also benefit the Tories, as it refreshes the anti-union sentiment and reminds the voters of the close connection between the unions and the Labour Party...
...Important international negotiations lie ahead," said Macmillan. "It is clearly right that the people should have the opportunity of deciding, as soon as practicable, who are to represent them in these negotiations." The papers immediately labeled it a "summit election,", and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, caught off base visiting Premier Khrushchev in Moscow, hurried home to take up the challenge. Asked Laborite Gaitskell at London airport: Isn't it "better to be represented by people who have all along believed in the need for a summit meeting...
Toward talk's end. Ike made a special point of sounding a strong note on West Berlin: "Freedom, if there's to be peace, is indivisible. We've really got to be firm." Macmillan said, "I agree." On parley-at-the-summit, the President cautioned firmly: "I will not be a party of a meeting that is going to depress and discourage people. Therefore, we must have some promise of fruitful results...
...since De Gaulle has taken over -"a sense of purpose.'' And about De Gaulle, the President confided to a friend: "I know he's a stubborn man, but as long as he's stubborn on our side, everything's all right." On the crucial summit issue, Charles de Gaulle was all of that. Said the final U.S.-French communique: "A summit conference, useful in principle, should take place only when there is some possibility of definite accomplishment...