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This week the West stopped talking to Moscow about the Berlin crisis. Instead, it started talking to the world. In Paris, George Marshall, Ernest Bevin and Robert Schuman gravely announced that the Soviet Government had made further negotiations impossible; consequently they were taking the issue of the Berlin blockade to the United Nations...
...Open Up the World." Then the world's town meeting saw an awesome spectacle-a Briton in a rage. For almost a year Ernest Bevin's voice had been subdued; illness had weakened him, and the protracted Palestine struggle, in which he often found himself at odds with Washington, had embittered him. He has made some of the dreariest speeches in the 700-year history of the House of Commons. Last week, he was the old Ernie Bevin again, the great commoner who-when Russia first threatened to sink U.N. 2½ years ago-had lifted U.N. above...
After that, the Western envoys (Smith, Britain's Frank Roberts and France's Yves Chataigneau) took off for Paris where the U.N. General Assembly was about to meet. All the other principals converged on Paris-from Washington came Secretary of State Marshall, from London Ernie Bevin, from Berlin General Lucius Clay. The visitors were joined by France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. The chief decision they would have to make was whether to continue the delightful talks with Molotov in Paris (if he should decide to come), or whether to throw the Berlin issue into...
...Union must fail miserably. Last week also brought a step toward political unity which was equally important. At The Hague conference on Western Union (TIME, Aug. 2), France had proposed formation of a Western European parliament. The idea had been turned down as premature by Britain's Ernie Bevin and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak. But last week France's doughty Foreign Minister Robert Schuman again went...
...Ernie Bevin still remained chilly. But Paul-Henri Spaak weightily changed his mind, admitted "It is a good idea...