Lord Bertrand Russell's “Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev” (New Statesman and Nation, Nov. 23, 1957), urging a summit meeting to consider “the conditions of co-existence,” provided ...

A third man, Lord Bertrand Russell was also present, acting as umpire of the event. The meeting - which lasted only 10 minutes - did not go well. To this day, no one can agree precisely what took ...