Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan that the President best symbolized the nation's aspirations at the same time that he reflected the warmth of the human spirit. In an area in Manhattan's West Side slums, a group of public-spirited citizens (president: John D. Rockefeller III) had pulled together the resources of dozens of public and private agencies to plan a center for the performance and instruction of opera, music, dance and repertory theater. The President's car skirted a crowd of 12,000, pulled up behind a huge green-and-white-striped umbrella tent and a blue-draped speakers...
...square, over Germans at the table or beside it (see below)-was the kind of picayune fuss that discredits the whole practice of diplomacy. The quick-witted journalists surrounding the closed room, flitting from one briefing to another, comparing notes, were agreed on one thing: that East and West would disagree, but not disastrously -and pass the buck up to Eisenhower, Khrushchev, Macmillan and De Gaulle. If Geneva ended that way, many would say a plague on both your houses, and assume that each side had only put forward what it knew the other would reject...
Surprisingly, Geneva turned out to be a cause for pessimism perhaps, but not for cynicism. The proposals put down jointly by the West-the product of countless study papers, countless conferences-proved neither unyielding nor narrow. They took account of what was legitimate in Russia's past positions on Europe; they moved away from the position, no longer tenable after 14 years of peace, that the conquerors could still impose on Germany the shape of its future government. They gave the U.S.S.R. the chance to prove what it professed to desire. In their careful phrasing and attention to detail...
...stead of the caprice of history, is to settle the future of Germany and of European security. Anyone who took the trouble to study the Western position at Geneva would find it an honest attempt to reach agreement. That mysterious, ephemeral and debatable quality, the diplomatic initiative, was the West's once more. Khrushchev could talk resoundingly of seeking peaceful agreement - but how much did he really care...
...made clear that there would be a summit conference afterward if "constructive proposals" were made. He affirmed that "the U.S. is in deadly earnest about wanting to reach agreements." After the three other ministers and representatives of the two Germanys made speeches, Christian Herter proceeded to put forward the West's "package" plan...