Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RUSSIA. Replacing Manila-bound Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen: Llewellyn E. Thompson, 52, Ambassador and High Commissioner to Austria since 1952. For longtime (26 years) Career Diplomat "Tommy" Thompson (who, like Bohlen, worked for Ike as Russian interpreter at the 1955 Geneva summit talks) the shift will be a second Moscow assignment; he was second secretary and consul of the Moscow embassy 1940-44, won a Medal of Freedom for staying on "at the risk of capture" by the invading Nazis after the rest of the diplomatic corps was evacuated to Kuibyshev. Last year Colorado-born Ambassador Thompson won a citation...
...born leader as well as a born pusher, Peter fights famines and bad drainage, jousts with floods, earthquakes and contumacious natives. He also decides to cross wills with "Meru," an Everest-class glacial peak, and coaxes the long-suffering Gerry to join him. They fail to scale the summit and Gerry comes back to the Savage home a nervous wreck, to be nursed back to health by Emily. She makes convalescent Gerry's bed and eventually lies in it. World War I shatters their illicit bliss and sweeps the two meninto their last mountain adventure this time...
...West consensus that disarmament, being begun in an atmosphere of mutual distrust, must proceed by stages. Each stage would have to be completed to the satisfaction of all participants, before any further progress could be made. The lesson of Yalta has been well learned, perhaps too well for the summit conference to have had much effect on East-West relations...
...Attacks Summit Conferences...
...also attacked recent presidents for participating in "summit conferences," saying that in so doing, they "get exaggerated ideas of their own power." He proposed that at least two senators, one from each party, take part in all negotiations with foreign powers, saying that the Senate has "abdicated" its power in making treaties...