Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this new Continental power--with Paris as its capital and with half of Africa under its sway--both London and Moscow will try to prevent its emergence. The decisive stroke to that end would be to separate Germany from France, and this goal can be achieved through a summit meeting...
...Russia and everybody else wants a summit, "France is in favor. But precisely because it hopes that the proposed meeting will result in something positive, it believes it necessary not to rush into talks that might be superficial...
...agreement among the Western powers "on the questions to be dealt with and the common position they will take on each item"; 3) "personal contact between Mr. Khrushchev and myself." Happily, added the general, Khrushchev has agreed to visit Paris in March. So after that, say in May, a summit meeting would be in order...
Adenauer himself was reported to be shocked and angered to find that his ally De Gaulle had arranged Khrushchev's visit to Paris without first consulting him. Although Adenauer had discussed and approved in advance the French President's moves to block an early summit, he was finding De Gaulle a difficult ally. He had been troubled when De Gaulle pulled his Mediterranean navy out from NATO control. He was profoundly embarrassed when De Gaulle remarked that the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity...
...Matterhorn (known in the script as The Citadel) or die in the attempt as his father died before him. He joins the expedition of an English mountaineer (Michael Rennie) as a porter, and at the climax of the attempt discovers the long-sought passage to the summit...