Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems, the President was most impatient to get on with the missions of personal diplomacy that he felt might lead toward a hardheaded world peace. A polite Eisenhower nudge brought an agreement from France's President Charles de Gaulle to a pre-summit meeting of Western chiefs of state (Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Britain's Macmillan, West Germany's Adenauer) on Dec. 19 in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beyond that lay a summit conference with Khrushchev next spring. Between the Western meeting and the long-heralded summit, Ike planned to make his promised visit to Moscow...
With a rolling of diplomatic drums, the world this week was informed that Dwight Eisenhower, Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle and Germany's Adenauer would meet in Paris on Dec. 19 to lay their plans for East-West summit talks. After the immemorial manner of chancelleries, the announcement was made to seem an example of renewed Western unity. In fact, it was simply an admission that granitic
Charles de Gaulle had won the day and that the summit has been postponed indefinitely into...
France's Western allies have been puzzled by these antics also and by de Gaulle's slow-down tactics on the summit conference. The French nuclear test in the Sahara is going to be embarrassing at a time when serious consideration is being given to disarmament. The moving of air bases from France to West Germany was strategically inconvenient...
...other Western powers--particularly the British--are quite sincerely committed to the prospect of an early summit conference. The British tabloid press has reacted to de Gaulle's actions with a vitriolic fury that prompted the French weekly L'Express (not exactly part of the regime's cheering section) to point out that Anglo-French amity is far from traditional and that perhaps the two nations really are natural enemies...