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...news out of Britain this week is that Winston Churchill has given up his long hopes of a "parley at the summit" with Malenkov soon. His most influential Cabinet advisers talked him out of it-with an unexpected assist from, of all people, Vyacheslav Molotov...
...richer in bonus money. His feat made fat headlines and dazzling copy. It also gave him a clean beat on the Times, during the first crucial days of the expedition that conquered Mount Everest, though the Times beat everyone on the big story, the climb to Everest's summit...
...Summit Again. If it was peace, it was peace with a rancid smell for American nostrils. Secretary of State Dulles wanted to signify his distaste by staying away, and thus disassociating the U.S. from any bargain made at Geneva. But Britain and France were putting heavy pressure on him to sit in on the capitulation of the West, and to give a U.S. guarantee that the terms would...
...nostrils of old Winston Churchill, the whiff of peace was like a tonic. Why not a parley at the summit? He had declared in Washington that he still thought such a meeting might be profitable if the time was right. What better time than amidst the acclaim and relief of an Indo-Chinese peace? He put it to his Cabinet: he could meet Malenkov at Geneva, in the happy aftermath of agreement. Or Berlin, or Stockholm might provide a suitable rendezvous: Churchill was not too keen on going to Moscow, which might look too much like a pilgrimage. Eden objected...
Prime Minister Churchill has been yearning publicly for a conference "at the summit" with the Soviet leaders. This week he and Anthony Eden are coming to Washington, the true summit of international power, the place where the most progress can be made toward settlement of the world's most urgent problems...