Word: visits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to congratulate you on your story of "the new diplomacy," as dramatized by Vice President Richard M. Nixon's visit to Moscow [Aug. 3]. Why shouldn't the leaders of the nations meet, rub shoulders, wave fists and argue occasionally in public? Why shouldn't the peoples of the nations meet and discuss, argue and risk an occasional sock in the jaw? Altogether it is good, sharp, educational stuff for both us and the Russians...
Inevitably, the announcement in Washington and Moscow of an exchange of visits between Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev stirred talk around the world of a deep thaw in the cold war. In the thaw mood, the Communist press suddenly stopped sniping at the U.S., and Premier Khrushchev jovially announced that he would not do any saber-rattling during his visit. In Washington, President Eisenhower made it known that he was planning to meet Khrushchev's plane when it arrives in mid-September, though Khrushchev is not technically chief of the Soviet state,*and protocol does not demand welcome...
...republics' foreign ministers in Santiago, Chile, reported on the Big Four foreign ministers' conference on Berlin, which ended in stalemate after 65 days of futile negotiations (see FOREIGN NEWS). But the Geneva gloom was lightened by hopes of results from Premier Nikita Khrushchev's two-week visit to the U.S. starting in mid-September, Dwight Eisenhower's visit to the U.S.S.R. later in the fall, and the President's' trip this month to London and Paris (Bonn was added later...
Beyond Stalemate. By this time, most Cabinet members had been filled in on the steps that led to the Eisenhower exchange of visits. The story: Back in June, when the Geneva conference on Berlin recessed for three weeks, Secretary of State Herter decided that there was little real prospect of anything but a stalemate at Geneva. Looking ahead to the conference's end, Herter saw two possibilities, both unpleasant: a dangerous hotting-up of the Berlin crisis or a face-losing Western agreement to go to the summit despite President Eisenhower's public avowals that progress at Geneva...
...Washington in early July, Herter asked touring First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov (TIME, July 13) to tell Khrushchev that if he wanted to visit the U.S. the President was willing to receive him. Shortly before Vice President Nixon left for Moscow, the President told Nixon that Khrushchev-visit negotiations were under way. Nixon's own talks with Khrushchev confirmed his own belief that a Khrushchev visit to the U.S. might do some good. With the Geneva conference fizzling to an end, the President and Secretary Herter decided to get the visits announced while the conference was still...