Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Told his weekly press conference that he does not intend to be pressured into a summit conference unless the Soviet Union shows evidence of good faith at the four-week-old Big Four foreign ministers' talks at Geneva. Said the President: "There has not been any detectable progress that to my mind would justify the holding of a summit meeting." He added that he would expect the foreign ministers to produce an agreed statement so that "we could see where we are apart on issues, whether we could narrow these gaps, and whether we could define the areas where...
...Maurice Couve de Murville. Russia's Andrei Gromyko-who were in Washington to attend the funeral of John Foster Dulles. In a pointed warning to Gromyko, Ike told the Big Four that he hoped for enough "measure of success" at Geneva to make a Russia-coveted summit conference "desirable and useful...
Would such a bargain justify a summit meeting? The British, most eager of all the Westerners to promote summit talks, had a further suggestion-let the final Geneva communique also report "mutual interest" in such problems as disarmament and nonaggression pacts-a ceremonious way of simply reaffirming that problems exist, even if solutions...
Almost everybody concerned seemed to feel that the purpose of Geneva was to render a heads-of-state meeting possible. But the inconclusive talk at Geneva, and the uncompromising talk outside it, reinforced the suspicion that a summit meeting is unlikely to settle anything the foreign ministers cannot. In fact, even Nikita Khrushchev's longstanding enthusiasm for summit talks seemed last week to have been cooled-as it was last year-by the evidence that he was unlikely to win any cheap victories. Almost ignored was his offhand remark, in a speech at Korea in Albania: "If there...
...accepted Russian domination of Eastern Europe. Dulles was not alive to answer so gross a fairy story,* and Khrushchev added kindly, "To make such a declaration required courage." The State Department noted tartly that Khrushchev's menacing insults to Italy and Greece hardly fitted in with his pre-summit stance of trying to ease tensions...