Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cries for help from the friendly government of a small nation-Lebanon-that stood in imminent danger of overthrow from subversion. Of itself, the show of strength rocked the Communists, who count on subversion to win the cold war, provoked Moscow's Khrushchev into a demand for a summit conference (see below) and titillated him into a threat of nuclear rocket retaliation. Moreover, it thrust on U.S. diplomats the urgent need to clarify U.S. aims and goals in the Middle East, where time was fast running...
...Washington, President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles, visiting British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd conferred on the rocket-rattling letter. At conference's end, word leaked out that they had turned thumbs down on any immediate Geneva summit meeting but might be willing to talk summit again after the close of the U.N. debate...
When it came to the final huffing and puffing communique on the Tito-Nasser meeting, Cyprus was not mentioned. Tito and Nasser called for a summit conference and an end to nuclear tests (with an unexpected demand in advance that France be forbidden to test atomic weapons in the Sahara Desert). Their communique further deplored the "tendency for bringing influence and domination to bear over other countries by interfering in their internal affairs and with various forms of pressure." To any innocent outsider, such a criticism might seem to apply to Russia's campaign against Yugoslavia and Hungary...
...Regretted, in a brisk reply to Nikita S. Khrushchev's letter of last month, Russia's cold shoulder of the slow negotiation sessions with Western ambassadors in Moscow on an agenda for a possible summit meeting, patiently pledged to keep on trying to find ways to get along with the Soviets...
...went to Italy, talked over his idea for a Christian-Jewish brotherhood movement with Vatican officials. Next he visited Israel. Back in Buenos Aires several weeks later, he launched his first trial balloon, a message in La Prensa: "Judaism and Christianity are two sides of one mountain at the summit of which is the idea of the Messiah...