Word: summon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect to muzzle German parties and newspapers. Ask them, suggested Mendès. Adenauer said he would see them when he got back to Bonn, and let Mendès know. That would not do, said Mendès; he had to know this week. Adenauer agreed to summon his coalition leaders to Paris...
...surprise of almost all concerned, Russia's "new-look" promoters were even able to summon up kind words for the Western powers' Trieste settlement. Though the partition of the territory between Italy and Yugoslavia bluntly disregarded Moscow's insistence on internationalization and a role in Trieste's control, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky notified the Security Council that the Soviet Union "takes cognizance" of the Trieste agreement as one that "will promote . . . normal relations . . . and thus contribute toward a relaxation of tension." In his last words on the subject a year ago, Vishinsky had vowed...
...with the Cabinet. He returned with orders to examine the proposal prayerfully and to suggest a modification: troops should stay in their present general positions, thus creating a smallpox pattern instead of large divisions, which would amount to partition. At week's end both sides had agreed to summon military commanders from Indo-China to study the regrouping and make recommendations. Pleaded Bidault: "There is need for haste here to save lives." Since he was thinking about French lives, the Communists were unimpressed...
...nearly two weeks-until the National Assembly dispersed for vacation-France's canny Foreign Minister Georges Bidault kept a document locked up in his desk. Then, one day last week, he took out the paper, got Premier Laniel to summon the Cabinet to consider it. It contained Britain's terms for "associating" with the proposed European Defense Community, an association which Paris demanded as one of three major preconditions to France's final decisions...
...practice, any one of the hemisphere's foreign offices can now legally call a dangerous Communist penetration in another nation to the attention of the Organization of American States. The O.A.S. will investigate, and may summon all nations to consultation. By a two-thirds vote, the nations may take whatever action (e.g., admonitions, economic sanctions or sterner measures) seems advisable...