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After Cripps went home to devalue the pound, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin stayed on in Washington. He had a meal with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Vice President Barkley and Senator Tom Connally. Then Bevin and Acheson settled down with platoons of experts to compare their views of the world. They discussed...
China. Acheson and Bevin agreed that Chiang Kai-shek's government was beyond help and beyond hope, except for the hope that Russia might not be able to exploit the Communist conquest. Britain has heavier investments in China than the U.S. has; she is more eager to stay in business there, despite the fact that the Reds have killed Britons and shot up British ships in the Yangtze River. The U.S. and Britain agreed that in making deals with the Communists, they would look out for each other's interests...
...tough fighters or bright young men were being developed in the unions to take their places. The class barriers of the bad old days had enriched the labor movement by keeping men of ability like Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin within the working class. Latter-day Bevins would not be forced to work as dockers or pop vendors. With government scholarships, bright boys would end up as smooth-tongued Oxford dons like Board of Trade President Harold Wilson. The gap between Labor Party men in the government and the men in the unions was growing...
...guidance and argument, Bevin & Cripps had a 15,000-word brief approved by the British cabinet. When they reached New York this week, they would have further briefing from Sir Henry Wilson Smith, the chief of their advance working party in Washington...
...Bevin & Cripps would argue that Britain's ultimate aim, like America's, was a competitive, freer-trading world outside what Bevin calls "the ruble area." But they would also defend Britain's present bilateral trade deals with other countries (e.g., Argentina) as an unavoidable expedient so long as the dollar shortage lasts. They would have a fairly shrewd notion of the American climate of opinion, of what they might ask and expect to receive...