Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accidental symbolism the Explorer's success drove the Russian propaganda campaign for a summit meeting off the front pages. Overseas, U.S. allies generally cheered Explorer's success more enthusiastically than did the cautious U.S. itself. At home, TIME correspondents in 22 U.S. cities reported that citizens generally shrugged their shoulders, said they knew it would happen, or said, "It's about time...
...midst of Turkey's election campaign last fall, Khrushchev threatened the Turks with atomic extinction if they "interfered" in Syria (TIME, Oct. 21); neither Menderes nor any other Turkish politician thought the matter important enough to warrant more than passing mention in their speeches. At the Paris summit meeting this winter, most European NATO members dithered unhappily over the wisdom of accepting U.S. missile bases; Menderes spoke up to announce that Turkey was eager for any and all missiles whenever offered...
Dulles moved on to blunt the newest anti-Dulles campaign: the argument that he is too rigid an anti-Communist to permit a parley with the U.S.S.R. "The truth is quite the contrary," said he. "We do want a summit meeting provided the proper conditions obtain. " The proper conditions: preliminary meetings, held in secret at diplomatic levels, in which the possibilities of real agreements can be explored and in which the sense of urgency of the free world need not be let down. Said Dulles: "There are, I know, many who feel that the cold war could be ended...
...piece of information. Their aim was not to put words in the President's mouth but to help him assemble relevant facts; they had long since learned that Eisenhower answers questions in his own way. On the question of Russia's demands for an international summit conference. Hagerty pointed out that last May Russia's Nikita Khrushchev had taken a position that was now close to the U.S. position; i.e., that a summit conference should be preceded by a working-level preliminary conference. (Secretary of State Dulles had dug up the Khrushchev statement and passed...
...hunting lodge on the Polish side of the Soviet's western borders, there met for three days in closely guarded secrecy with Poland's Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka and Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz. Likely subjects: 1) inter-party differences brought out at last November's Communist summit meeting in Moscow, notably Gomulka's reluctance to accept revival of any sort of Comintern; 2) coordinated moves to follow up Poland's plan for creating a "denuclearized" zone in central Europe; 3) Gomulka's bullheaded insistence on trying to borrow some $100 million from the U.S. rather...