Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negotiation." What touched off the talk of war was Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's joltingly tough speech rejecting Western proposals for a foreign ministers' conference on Berlin, and his calculated insult to Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in Russia on an official peace-talking visit (see FOREIGN NEWS). In response to Khrushchev's "palpably intransigent attitude," said...
...Visit and search," a peacetime euphemism for boarding alien vessels, is an old, embattled subject in international law. Britain boarded U.S. ships before the War of 1812, and the U.S. boarded vessels at various times thereafter: during the Civil War, in Prohibition days. In the South Atlantic a few months before Pearl Harbor, a party from the U.S. cruiser Omaha boarded and interned the German merchant raider Odenwald, which was masquerading under U.S. colors. The U.S. made a tentative stab at visit and search in 1954, when it asked Britain and other allies to permit U.S. Navy ships to seize...
Dwight Eisenhower, on his fourth visit since Dulles' hernia operation disclosed persistent cancer (TIME, Feb. 23), quickly sensed his friend's low morale. He started to talk of how Dulles had provided much moral encouragement during Ike's own recoveries, from ileitis and the coronary attack. Dulles, though appreciating Ike's desire to turn the tables, doggedly murmured that perhaps, after all, he should turn his job over to a successor. Retorted Ike: "Forget about it." He praised Dulles for his remarkable progress, smoothly switched to a spirited discussion of the Berlin situation. Half an hour...
...President, who continued to visit or pen a note to the hospital every couple of days, tried again to squelch the chatter about retiring Dulles. To G.O.P. congressional leaders, meeting at the White House, he passed the word in firm tones: "It is my responsibility." In press conference he praised Senators who (unlike Symington and Humphrey) "have expressed very prayerfully their great hope that he will be spared to go on with his work." By week's end Eisenhower's plain words had wiped out any excuses for confusion: Dulles would not retire unless he declared himself physically...
...access routes into West Berlin over to the East German Communists. If the West would not agree to a Russian-drafted World War II peace treaty with both East and West Germany, Khrushchev would sign a separate treaty with the East Germans-after negotiating terms during his visit to the Leipzig trade fair this week. At that point "the [postwar] agreement on the division of Berlin into two sectors and hence on its occupation status will ipso facto fall away...