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...German heavy industry, a sensible division of military labor by which each member nation will eventually do one main defense job for all, and a unified high command for the cold war on Communism. The meeting had still another achievement, announced last week: during the talks, Messrs. Acheson, Bevin and Schuman reached their first accord on the Near East...
...recognizing Communist China last Jan. 6, Britain hoped to protect her huge commercial stake there. Some British optimists also hoped to gain a political advantage; they thought that Mao Tse-tung might become another Tito. In the House of Commons last week, ailing Ernie Bevin sadly dismissed the second hope: "I think Mao Tse-tung has been receiving advice from Moscow-his is the same kind of attitude as Moscow...
Although Peking has kept its Communist snoot in the air and has left Britain dangling unrecognized for five months, Bevin still stubbornly defended the first hope: "We had large interests in China . . . The advice I gave to the cabinet was right and, in a few years' time, I think it will turn out to have been right...
...have Bevin's job as Foreign Secretary during those years disagreed. From the dispatch box opposite Bevin, Anthony Eden attacked the "timing and method" which had put Britain out of step with the U.S., France and most of the Commonwealth. Said Eden sharply: "Recognition has in fact brought out no advantage at all ... Our commercial interests in China are of immense importance [but] it will advantage no one-not those firms, nor anyone else-to embark on a policy of appeasement . . ." British recognition, he added, had adversely affected "events outside China, notably in Indo-China and in Malaya...
...council's concluding session, which was open to newsmen and the public, the tired, rumpled Foreign Ministers appeared on a stage in London's Lancaster House to read a dozen suitable speeches. It was ailing Ernie Bevin who raised his tired head from his hands to express the spirit of what he called the "great Atlantic brotherhood." Said he: "We firmly believe that in the end the free man can never be vanquished by the slave...