Word: bevin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening of a Workshop. This week in Paris the 16 nations which will receive Marshall Plan aid met to grapple with that obstacle. As they met in the Salon de l'Horloge of the Foreign Ministry, the conference chairman, Ernest Bevin, told them: "I think the world might be assured that this organization is not a conference but a workshop. It will be charged with the duty of determining practical steps to build up European production [and] to reduce the dollar deficit...
Last week in Brussels, Ernest Bevin's dream of Western Union was taking on some hard outlines of reality. Delegates to a five-nation meeting (Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg) moved rapidly toward a defensive alliance against Russia. By mid-March, the delegates' work would be presented to their Foreign Ministers who were expected to sign an "umbrella treaty," to keep Western Europe out of the Red rain. The Czech crisis had speeded up the fusion of Europe's democratic forces...
...During the Council of Foreign Ministers," he recalled, "during one of the more pleasant-or shall I say, least unpleasant-moments, I found myself talking to Mr. Molotov in the presence of [Mr. Bevin]. Mr. Molotov asked me whether I had studied the works of Karl Marx. I replied that I had, but that I was anything but a Marxist. Foreign Minister Molotov suggested that one was unlikely to find a good Marxist in the House of Lords. Mr. Bevin then put in: 'That is just where you are wrong. The House of Lords are the only people...
...London, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin defended the dispatch of the cruisers as necessary "to insure the protection of life and property," and urged again that the question of title be left up to the International Court of Justice. When an M.P. reminded him that the Guatemalans had threatened to quit buying Scotch whiskey, Bevin boomed that it was all right with him. "I have already suggested," he said, "that it should come to London." (Unfortunately for M.P.s, Guatemala buys but .002% of Britain's Scotch exports...
...other words, Bevin's speech and the debate it precipitated could be inclusively reported only by reflecting a whole year's events and trends-a job that the daily press, by & large, does not undertake, and which TIME must undertake, whether it finally succeeds...