Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, President Kennedy told his news conference it was "clear that these negotiations, if successful, should lead on to wider discussions among other nations." But the President seemed in no hurry to rush into a top-level meeting with Khrushchev. "There is no evidence," he said, "that a summit is indicated or needed...
...JULY 1955-President Eisenhower proposes an "open skies" inspection plan at the Geneva Summit Conference. Russia turns down the proposal...
Inevitably, Western diplomats speculated whether the Red Chinese and the Soviets would sever party connections or diplomatic relations, carry the feud to a summit session of world Communist leaders, or merely agree to continue to be disagreeable. Whatever happened, the gravest schism in the history of Communism was at hand...
...full-dress summit session of 81 Communist parties in Moscow in November 1960 produced a statement (adopted unanimously, of course) that merely lumped together these diametrically opposed opinions. Then last fall, the Red Chinese invasion of India only served to justify Khrushchev's view that Mao was a reckless fanatic, and Moscow ostentatiously failed to back Peking. As for Khrushchev's withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, the maneuver confirmed Mao's worst fears about vacillating Kremlin leadership, leaning first to "adventurism," then to "capitulationism." Thundered Peking: "It is 100% appeasement. A Munich pure and simple. Imperialism...
Harold Macmillan valiantly tried to divert Britain's mind from sex and security. Displaying something like his old form in the House of Commons, he delivered an eloquent speech on prospects for disarmament and a summit conference that was received respect fully even by the Opposition. But Macmillan's eloquence could not diminish Tory distress over the three separate scandals that plagued his government...