Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. hardened its line on summit talks, too. One day last week the Kremlin's Khrushchev sent a bitter letter to President Eisenhower rejecting the U.S.'s latest offer to begin joint technical studies on disarmament, adding a new attack on nuclear tests "causing an ever-present and ever-mounting danger to the health and life of the people . . . from radiation hazards." President Eisenhower prodded right back that K. really ought to begin technical studies: "I am unhappy that valuable time is now being wasted...
Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, committed to summit talks if diplomats can agree on an agenda, felt strong enough in terms of British public opinion to launch an attack against the Labor Party's line on nuclear tests. "What prevents war," he said, "is the balance of power. Peace has been preserved thus far not because the West has been disarmed but because the present balance is roughly equal. I would not like to be responsible for the outcome if we were to abandon the balance." Said the New York Times: "The Soviet strategy emphasizes again Moscow...
...months Russia's headlong Nikita Khrushchev had seemed incapable of putting a foot wrong. His ways might be crude, his methods clumsy, but his words had an engaging candor. He conceded nothing, but incessant Russian appeals for a summit meeting "to relax tensions" had thrown the West on the propaganda defensive. Unilateral Russian "renunciation" of nuclear tests-after the Russians had just completed a series of tests-enabled Khrushchev to pose as the world's leading advocate of disarmament. But just when everything seemed to be going so well for him, Nikita Khrushchev's foreign policy suddenly...
...sudden, it was the Russians who seemed to be dragging their feet on the road to the summit. The amount of space devoted to the summit in the Russian press has fallen off by 30%, and Russian diplomats no longer display their old volubility on the subject. Gromyko at first insisted on talking separately to the Moscow ambassadors from the U.S.. Britain and France, then refused to hold a joint preparatory conference unless Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia were allowed to sit in too. The air was now being filled with what Russia would be unwilling to discuss-the status...
...German reunification, Mikoyan made it clear that this was something for West and East German governments (which do not recognize one another) to work out together, and if they could not, the big powers could do nothing about it. What then of the 1955 summit agreement at Geneva, between Eisenhower, Bulganin, Eden and Faure, to reunify Germany through free elections? Oh that, said Mikoyan, would have no place in a future summit agenda: "Since then a lot of water has gone over the dam, and much has changed. That is all in the past, and it is necessary to start...