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Britain's Ernest Bevin spoke with fervor and measured hope: "We have today embarked on a great adventure ... a most famous historical undertaking . . . This new [North Atlantic] pact brings us under a wider roof of security ... It is certainly one of the greatest steps toward world peace ... a new era of cooperation and understanding...
...Attlee government had its narrowest majority ever on a House of Commons vote in January on Secretary Bevin...
...Vodka. The leak of Cheke's trade secrets made Cheke's own maxims hard going for an embarrassed British Foreign Service. In Washington, the British embassy hastily checked its Chekes safely behind locked doors; in London, Ernest Bevin was "very cross about it," and Marcus Cheke let it be known he was "most angry." As the matter closed, a last-minute addendum was casually spoken by Sir George William Rendel, the British ambassador to Belgium. "If you serve vodka to the gentleman you're trying to swindle," quipped Sir George, "he recovers his suspicions the next morning...
...Prince of Peace. The French government officially expressed the nation's "deep emotion." In London, Ernest Bevin rumbled: "[The trial] is utterly repugnant . . ." Six thousand Britons jammed London's Albert Hall, while thousands waited outside in the rain, some kneeling in prayer: speaker after speaker denounced the Budapest trial. Cried one: "Christ is indeed the Prince of Peace, but not of peace at any price...
What Is a Patron? Still sleepy from his afternoon nap, Bevin droned through a long speech, Wearily mispronouncing words (he said "exubriance" for exuberance, "umanimity" for unanimity, "Lydia" for Lydda). When he reached the end without announcing recognition, the Labor benches groaned. The vote on a motion for adjournment was a vote for or against Bevin. Prime Minister Attlee, in a desperate effort to corral wavering Labor votes, made it a vote of confidence for or against the government. Even so, more than 50 Labor M.P.s abstained, and the vote, 283 to 193, was the narrowest majority the Labor government...