Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foster Dulles and other top team members at the White House early in the week, the most pressing problem was not what to do about Lebanon or Jordan or Iraq, but what to do about Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a Khrushchev-Eisenhower-Macmillan-De Gaulle-Nehru-Hammarskjold summit meeting at Geneva (TIME, July 28) to bring the world back from the "brink of catastrophe...
...crisis by getting U.N. forces to replace U.S. troops. To say no would be to invite-unnecessarily-the duckings of the neutralist world and-more important-to strain the home-front political position of that valuable ally, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, already under considerable to-the-summit pressure from Laborites. In talks with Dulles, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd made it clear that the Macmillan government could not afford the political penalties of rebuffing Khrushchev's ploy, and Macmillan himself drove that point home with a transatlantic telephone call to Dwight Eisenhower...
...note was calculated to force Khrushchev to make the next move, ask for a U.N. summit meeting. Macmillan's note went further; it expressed "hope" that Khrushchev would attend the U.N. Security Council, noted that it would not be the purpose of the meeting "to register differences through voting," i.e., Khrushchev would not have to pack a veto...
...Chairman Nathan Twining and other top officials were meeting with the President in an overall review of the Middle East situation, Press Secretary James Hagerty hurried into Ike's office with the news, just off the White House Teletype machines, that Khrushchev had accepted the idea of a summit-level Security Council meeting. India's Prime Minister Nehru should take part, said Khrushchev, and so should "the Arab countries concerned." As the place and time, Khrushchev suggested New York City five days thence. "The threat to world peace has reached a dangerous level," he wrote. "So much...
Summrrsmanship. At week's end it was uncertain when the modified summit meeting would be held, or where, or what nations would participate, or even whether any such meeting would take place at all. It all depended pretty much on Khrushchev's next note. Washington thought the U.S. could be ready before mid-August, and regular members of the Security Council were expected to discuss the procedural possibilities this week. One possibility: the heads of state and the permanent representatives-among them the delegate of Free China in the absence of Chiang Kai-shek (who made no sound...