1. Diplomatic efforts at peace-making have so far proved unavailing.

2. Fears for the President's safety could overshadow his peace-making mission.

3. Aeschines, orator and statesman of Athens, 390 or 389–314 BCE, became active in politics about 350.In 348 he was a member of a mission sent to the Peloponnese to stir up feeling against the growing power of king Philip of Macedon; but in 347, when part of a peace-making embassy to Philip, was won over to sympathy with the king, and became a supporter of the peace policy of the Athenian