Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Acting Secretary of State Herter was the only one of the Big Four to walk into the foreign ministers' meeting last week with a detailed proposal for the Western position at a summit conference; when the British, French or West Germans argued a point. Herter would ask if they had an alternate suggestion. None...
Communism's moves of the week demonstrated the futility of concessions; the West's moves of the week demonstrated the West's resolve not to make...
...Washington did little for ceremony as the West's Big Four foreign ministers gathered last week in Room 5106 to talk about the May 11 foreign ministers' conference with the U.S.S.R., the city at least provided a down-to-earth setting for some down-to-earth discussion...
Complete Plan. In closed-door secrecy, the U.S.'s Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, and West Germany's Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano went over proposals developed by their hard-working careermen. Britain's Lloyd said he thought that the West should offer some concession to the U.S.S.R. to lure the Kremlin into detailed talks on Germany; then, with Russian interest whetted, suggest some concessions by the Communists. Couve de Murville and Von Brentano said they thought the West should...
...Herter took a position in between, contended that the West should offer the U.S.S.R. "a reasonable plan"-and, as it turned out, his was the only complete plan of proposals and positions, as opposed to the other diplomats' "pieces of plans." Time after time, in polite discussion, Herter invited anybody who sniped at the U.S. plan to offer up alternatives. None were forthcoming...