Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summit at Geneva in 1955. Hopes were high then for an end to the cold war-and because those hopes were shattered by Soviet obduracy and Khrushchev's hippodroming, the phony spirit of Geneva may have done more harm than good. In 1959 the U.S. moves toward the summit with more modest hopes. The chances of any harm's being done are therefore correspondingly less-for as long as the free world stands firm on first principles...
Dwight Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan met at Aspen Cottage's hearthside with a common goal: to maintain peace even while preserving freedom. But they differed significantly in their ideas about the best road to travel toward that goal...
...British, the American position on specific problems often seemed, in latter-day diplomatic parlance, to be "rigid." To the U.S., the British view sometimes seemed best symbolized by an umbrella and bent toward dangerous compromise. Areas of discussion...
...that would tend to increase the Communist balance of military power, believe the East Germans should sign the agreement, say they are not advocating a prohibition on nuclear weapons in Germany. But NATO's General Lauris Norstad went on record last week with his belief that any move toward thinning out Western forces in Germany would be potentially catastrophic for the West. Result of the Eisenhower-Macmillan talks: strong disagreement on both the freeze and thinning...
...unknown American taxpayers to whose tax contributions the Austrian economy owes the millions contributed in good will toward its reconstruction...