Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second phase, if it got that far, would presumably consist of a Russian attempt to "unpack the package" by throwing out a series of isolated counterproposals, each designed to catch the fancy of one of the Western powers and to horrify the others. (Example: an appeal for a mutual reduction of armed forces in central Europe, which would hold out to Britain the prospect of dismantling her costly Army of the Rhine, but would strike France and West Germany as the forerunner to U.S. military withdrawal from Western Europe.) Aware of the West's well-publicized failure to formulate...
Nuts & Bolts Week. The issue was obviously more than procedural, and there were mutterings that the conference might break down even before it got started. At best, the Western delegations expected an early Soviet rejection of the Western "package plan" (TIME, May 11) for settling in one interlinked proposal the future of Berlin, German reunification and European armaments levels. "The first phase of the conference," predicted a gloomy West German diplomat, "will be to wait until the Russians stop laughing at the Western proposals...
...Hole Card. In somber anticipation of this train of events, many of Europe's pundits had already dismissed the Geneva meeting as "the useless conference." But most of the Western diplomats directly concerned believed they held at least one strong hole card: Nikita Khrushchev's seemingly overriding desire for a summit meeting. Trading on this, the U.S. had already served indirect notice that any Russian move during the conference to shut off Western access routes to Berlin, or even to sign a separate World War II peace treaty with its Communist East German satellite, would result...
...inexhaustible Nikita received an Indian editor, an Indian scholar, Indonesia's President Sukarno, and discussed things with an official from Finland. Then he hopped into his plane and flew away on a trip to Kiev, while in Geneva sober-faced Andrei Gromyko sat down to do battle with Western diplomats...
...Sultan's catchable eye was caught by Helen Wilson, the Scottish wife of his physician. He divorced his four Malayan wives by the Moslem formula of telling them "Get out" three times before witnesses. Helen Wilson sailed home for the more laborious Western process of divorcing her husband, married the Sultan later that year, and honeymooned with him in the U.S., where the Sultan was equally affable with President Franklin Roosevelt and Mae West...