Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians have themselves become the enemy, and so the summit meeting of ten years later will be nearer in spirit to Panmunjom than to Yalta or Potsdam, its chief compulsion a mutual weariness of danger. On the West's summits this week, there was little more than a feeling that it was worth...
...before the Germans actually got their guns. Germany's staunch old Konrad Adenauer faced a similar demand at home for "one more conference." Most urgent of all was Britain's Harold Macmillan, whose instructions from campaigning Prime Minister Anthony Eden were to get a parley at the summit and to get it quickly-Macmillan was to announce it on a TV broadcast in midweek...
Secretary Dulles observed that he was not "adamant" against four-power talks, now that West Germany was safely riveted into the Western alliance. But was a meeting at the summit either safe or desirable? In the past, he pointed out, such meetings had led to "slipshod" work (he was obviously thinking of Yalta), and the Russians had taken advantage of "general agreements" only to cause trouble later. It would be a terrible mistake, he argued, to arrange a meeting of the chiefs of state and expect them to make decisions on substantive issues in a matter of a few days...
Groundwork. With Russia's Bulganin expressing "a favorable attitude," the Western allies set to work to concert their policies. Steps had to be painstakingly hewn out of the ice before the ascent to the summit could be made. The seven Western European Union nations met to put in motion the new organization designed to keep a watchful eye over West Germany's proposed 500,000-man army...
...Socialist experimenting had imposed. The News Chronicle's Gallup poll last week showed a 2½% edge for the Tories, a gain of 2% from late April. But above all, Eden was able to kick off his campaign with a promise of the long-awaited "parley at the summit." "If the Tories cannot win this election," said Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, "then they can never...