Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...text of the latest message from the Kremlin, delivered to President Eisenhower and to the chiefs of other Western nations last week, set the world off on fresh speculation about a summit meeting. From Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko came an aide-mémoire agreeing to a pre-summit conference of foreign ministers-a condition once insisted upon by the U.S. but since dropped (TIME, Feb. 24). This foreign ministers' conference, Gromyko added, should handle the housekeeping details of the summit, i.e., time, place, agenda, and should be convened in April. Gromyko did not say whether the foreign...
...then pulled a chair up to a coffee table near a fieldstone fireplace to work for an hour or so with Press Secretary James Hagerty. Not all the work was trivial, but neither was it lengthy or taxing, e.g., the President's hand was evident in the latest "summit conference" letter to Russia; he gave final approval to the strong foreign-trade message issued last week, made changes in a foreign-aid speech to be delivered this week. A few times, Personal Secretary Ann Whitman dropped by to take a little dictation. Perhaps twice a day the President talked...
...move toward better relations and with the greater necessity than ever before of doing so." So saying, the President last week sprinkled a generous measure of salty common sense into the bubbling chowder kettle of speeches, letters and rumors that have been steaming up the need for a summit meeting...
Whatever the cause, the President said, if the Russians really want a big-power parley at the summit, they should be willing to discuss agenda topics proposed by the U.S. But if the Russians insist on restricting agenda topics, then "we would . . . end up in the ludicrous posture of just glaring silently at each other across the table...
...goal of converting the Jews to Christianity. There is a grave question as to how these churches would react if Jews were to begin to convert Christians to Judaism." To explore these problems, Gordis proposes a conference of all Jewish national organizations, lay and rabbinic. Before such a Semitic summit meeting, Gordis would lay a "two-pronged program." Prong No. I : a pilot mission to Japan, which "would not encounter the difficulties that might arise in a country in which Christianity is dominant." Prong No. 2: information centers on Judaism throughout...