Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussions, my Western colleagues and I had foremost in mind the freedom of more than 2,000,000 people of West Berlin. We were determined, and remain determined, to make no arrangement with the Soviet Union that would undermine that freedom...
...When the conference resumes, the Western foreign ministers will be ready-as before-to negotiate in good faith, but resolved-as before-to stand firm on rights and principles...
...White House early last week went a secret letter addressed to Nikita Khrushchev. In the most dramatic, though private, Western move since the foreign ministers' conference began. President Eisenhower made a last-ditch personal attempt to break the stalemate in Geneva...
...Great New Plan." With sublime and confident arrogance, Russia's boss ignored Eisenhower's personal warning and rejected a final set of Western concessions at Geneva-concessions that included an implicit offer to accept a communique making no direct mention of Western occupation rights in Berlin. Instead, in an uncompromising, 70-minute speech in Moscow, Khrushchev derided "anyone" who thought that the U.S.S.R. was "prepared to pay any price for the sake of a summit meeting," truculently argued that there would be summit talks regardless of what happened in Geneva, "since the existing situation urgently requires...
...only give in Khrushchev's speech was purely illusory: he still insisted that the Western powers must withdraw their troops from Berlin, but professed willingness to bargain over the deadline date. Delivering this "great new plan" to the Western foreign ministers in Geneva, dour Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko suggested that Moscow might be willing to wait as long as 18 months, instead of a year. Either way it was an ultimatum, though Gromyko quibbled at calling it that. At this bleak point, 41 days after they had first assembled in Geneva, the Big Four foreign ministers at last...