When are they worth having?; What have they achieved in the past?; Could one succeed now?
With contributions by Sir William Hayter, Sir Harold Nicolson, A.J.P. Taylor

"It is not easy to see how things could be worsened by a parley at the summit, if such a thing were possible": Winston Churchill, February 1950
"The Soviet Union has managed to live for forty-two years without any summits, and can live without them for another hundred years": Nikita Khrushchev, May 1960
"A summit that fails could add to the tensions rather than reduce them... When the 'court of last resort' comes into session, we need to deal with it with some care": Dean Rusk, March 1962