Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles correctly foresaw that the Communists would get short-term, tactical advantages from last summer's Parley at the Summit. The resumption of Big Four contacts and the easing of tensions, the Secretary reasoned, would somewhat weaken the will of the Western democracies to take the hard decisions needed to maintain a posture of strength; the democracies, moreover, would feel freer to indulge their petty quarrels of long standing. Such a sequence has already followed, amid the looping longings of "The Spirit of Geneva...
...sewer-born impetuosities have lost their quality of brash unexpectedness. Red Skelton, helped by Comedienne Nancy Walker, took off after that comedy staple, The $64,000 Question, with a skillfully built parody of a member of the studio audience determinedly prompting Contestant Walker all the way to the summit question. NBC's Sid Caesar showed hopeful flashes of his old form with a rousing, doubletalk version of Pagliacci. Neither Groucho Marx, flourishing his cigar and convivial sneer, nor Jimmy Durante, with his patented songs and spotlighted exit, saw any reason for changing the formulas that have kept them among...
...Summit' meeting, if it is to be historic, rather than episodic, must usher in an era of peaceful change. It will not be an era of placidity and stagnancy, in the sense that the status quo, with its manifold injustices, will be accepted as permanent. It will be an era of change . . ." As if to get that era on its way. he announced that "the Western powers are ready to advance some overall plan of European security which would give the Soviet Union substantial additional reassurances." His closing plea was based on hope: "Let us strive together ... so that...
...membership. But after Molotov's standpat opening speech, only one of the three major agenda items (disarmament, atoms-for-peace, charter revision) seemed destined to benefit in a practical way from "the Geneva spirit." That was President Eisenhower's proposal, endorsed by the Russians at the summit meeting, for a U.N. center for joint development of the peaceful uses of atomic energy...
...however, indicate just how mild these attacks have been, and Eisenhower's own assurance has increased, as illustrated in both press conferences and in his willingness to speak for the Republicans at home and for the nation abroad. The President's initiative was clear, for example, at the Geneva Summit Conference where his disarmament plan stole international headlines from the Soviet publicity-for-peace tactics...