Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whatever the ultimate shape of the summit, the week of U.S. notes had managed to 1) placate U.S. allies, 2) keep the Middle East crisis from slipping out of the Security Council's hands, and 3) put upon Khrushchev the burden of either rejecting the summit meeting or accepting on U.S.-U.N. terms...
...Last week Cat Brown got two other kinds of dispatches. In his letter to President Eisenhower about why-not-get-together-at-a-parley-at-the-summit, Khrushchev called Cat Brown a lunatic. Brown considered this a compliment. Three days later, Brown learned that at year's end he will get a fourth star and command of NATO's Southern Europe command based in Naples...
...Pressure from abroad" was the expressed reason the U.S. found itself moving last week toward a summit conference it did not want, on a subject-peace in the Middle East-that it did not choose, and at a time it did not particularly fancy. But such a meeting might yet prove to have some advantages...
When Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd sat down with Secretary Dulles in Washington to work out a reply to Nikita Khrushchev's proposal for a quick day-after-tomorrow summit session on the U.S. intervention in Lebanon, the Canadians were already clamoring for a firm yes to Khrushchev. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer had privately passed word that he thought something positive must be done. The NATO Council in Paris favored a meeting. But it was Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, putting through a last-minute telephone call to tell Ike that British...
...some gloating Tories began talking of a snap national election to cash in ("We are riding the crest of the wave"). But Macmillan, who can resist popular outcries if he thinks them wrong (as in his refusal to suspend nuclear tests), showed not the slightest sign of approaching the summit defensively...