Word: summiteering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...with the complexities of foreign relations with either dramatic new policies or coups of face-to-face negotiation. A policy, he says, is "a galaxy of utterly complicated factors," not something that suddenly pops out of somebody's head. As for face-to-face encounters between world statesmen: "Summit diplomacy is to be approached with the wariness with which a prudent physician prescribes a habit-forming drug." He thinks that Presidents should stay away from summits, leave negotiating to the Secretary of State-and that the Secretary should leave it, as much as possible, to ambassadors...
What I cannot accept, however, is his account of Russians assuring me that they had no hostile images of the United States and that they objected to Khrushchev's demolition of the Summit. What I did say was that during my short visit to the Soviet Union last summer I was struck by the absence of hostility to myself and my traveling companions as Americans--despite the fact that we reached Russia just after the Powers trial, when popular feeling against our country might be presumed to be at its height. I had no such conversations as Mr. Smith reports...
Both prelates-like today's political leaders of the West-were worried lest they raise false hopes that all differences can be settled by a meeting at the summit. Vatican observers said hopefully that "a first and significant step has been taken," and Pope John saw the meeting going "only as far as the threshold of great problems." A cautious spokesman for the Church of England said, "His Holiness expressed to the Archbishop his great desire to increase brotherly feelings among all men, and especially among all Christians." But as the Archbishop had observed in advance: "Talking trivialities...
Nikita Khrushchev may not have amused anybody else with his table-thumping and shoe-pulling at the U.N. last fall, but he obviously enjoyed himself hugely. Last week, as his own summit meeting in Moscow of the world's Communist leaders broke up in guarded politeness, Nikita Khrushchev announced that he would like to come back to Manhattan next spring and have all the world's leaders come too. After a state visit from Cambodia's amiably neutralist Premier Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Khrushchev put his signature to a declaration that Russia and Cambodia "regard as advisable...
...Friends Service Committee, The Committee of Correspondence, and Tocsin), professor Stuart Hughee commented that during his visit to the USSR, just after the U-2 incident, many Russians assured him that they had no hostile images of the US: that indeed they objected to Khruschchev's demolition of the summit. From this evidence professor Hughes concluded that, if we could only rid our polley makers and ourselves of our own hostile image of the USSR, we would have made a major step toward world peace. I wish to protest against the frequent and facile mis-use of the word "image...