Word: bevin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone had expected, Andrei Vishinsky turned down the West's proposal for a Germany united on the basis of the Bonn constitution. He took two days and a lot of his beloved Russian proverbs to do it. Britain's Ernie Bevin grunted impatiently as Vishinsky hammered away: France's Robert Schuman fidgeted in his chair. But Dean Acheson, knowing that Vishinsky was talking-and had to talk-for the record, coolly waited till the Russian had run down. Then he submitted a proposal for settling the Berlin dispute...
Meanwhile, the conference had even achieved something approaching humor. Once, when the going got dreary, Bevin told his colleagues: "I feel like an orphan at the table. I am the only one here who wasn't brought up as a lawyer." When the lawyers tried to set an hour for the start of the secret meetings, Vishinsky said: "If we meet tomorrow at 3, I think I will have had enough sleep...
...deficit economy in which the Russian state had taken possession of a third of all industrial enterprise. Vishinsky painted a different picture of East Germany. Its industrial output, he said, was 96.6% of 1936-more progress than the 90% claimed for West Germany. Britain's Ernest Bevin, cigarette drooping from a corner of his mouth, thanked Vishinsky for "this tableau of Oriental prosperity," promised to bring it to the attention of the "thousands of refugees" from Soviet Germany...
After four days' debate on his proposals, Vishinsky asked the Westerners for their ideas. Acheson, Bevin and Schuman hammered out a proposal. Highlights: unity under the Bonn constitution, no more reparations out of current production, no Russian ownership of German industry, four-power control through a High Commission bound by majority decision "save in exceptional circumstances...
...based on an informal poll of members of the Overseas Press Club, are the U.S.'s Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Paul Hoffman, Walter Reuther and Douglas MacArthur; the U.S.S.R.'s Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, Nikoli Bulganin and Lavrenty Beria; Britain's Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Israel's Chaim Weizmann, Jordan's King Abdullah, South...