Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summit meeting reminded the people of the free world that NATO has a kind of strength which the Soviet empire can never have-a strength based upon a common tradition and common aspirations. Dwight Eisenhower, searching for words to put this thought into writing, told the leaders: "The fundamental genius of actions such as this is that we follow certain principles but recognize certain differences which cannot be surmounted completely. But because of our fundamental unity, we either surmount our difficulties or accommodate them...
...this juncture, Khrushchev went to the rostrum and ratified what his foreign minister had said ("I fully agree"). Conceding that the NATO communique statement that the West will never attack Russia unless attacked itself "is not badly put," he added a suggestion of his own: a summit meeting between the U.S. and Russia alone...
...notion of "disengagement" of hostile forces by creating a buffer zone between them has had a long appeal, and it is still strong today among statesmen and pundits who have not yet comprehended the meaning of airpower. At the Geneva summit conference in 1955, Britain's Sir Anthony Eden proposed the establishment of a zone stretching roughly 100 miles on each side of the Iron Curtain in which the armament of both sides would be subject to inspection, and gradually reduced. Eden's plan was premised on the reunification of Germany through free elections. The dividing line would...
...Eagerness. In the tumble of vague plans and great expectations that had been thrown into the summit hopper, there was one clear and urgent need-the U.S. need for IRBM bases in Europe to counter Russia's missile potential, its threat to the U.S. and to U.S. retaliatory power. But many of the NATO allies were far from eager to accept the U.S. offer of missiles for bases. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, in a quick swing through Europe's capitals, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a series of preconference meetings in Paris, had quickly learned...
...these agreements would demand all the skill of U.S. diplomacy, all the force of leadership the U.S. could summon, both at the summit conference and thereafter. "Our relations with Europe," said one foreign policy expert last week, "are now entering the acute phase. Europe's bargaining position is very high now and will get higher before it declines...