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...Labor government, which had once jeered him down, come to the realization of Soviet peril which he had voiced at Fulton, 22 months before. He had seen it also follow his lead for Western unity. But he was not quite satisfied. He stomped out to the lobby after Bevin's speech, grumping: "I want something bigger, something bigger." Next day, before packed galleries (Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had come to listen), Churchill produced it: a proposal for one last bid for "lasting settlement" with Russia. He was not up to his oratorical form, but grim earnestness...
...blast against Communism was the Prime Minister's own. He had picked his own time for loosing it: last week's valedictory to politics. He had written it without consulting the Cabinet, and he spoke it without relation to Ernest Bevin's anti-Russian blast in Britain (see INTERNATIONAL). If the words seemed strong from the mouth of a Mackenzie King, who usually speaks softly, it was because he had been alarmed by what he learned of the world's state during his visit to Europe last November. Excerpts...
...news from London was just what U.S. supporters of the European Recovery Program had been waiting for. Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin's firm pledge to seek a union of Western European states (see INTERNATIONAL) fitted snugly into the Marshall Plan. The grave and dramatic announcement could hardly have been better timed...
Though it was improbable that Britain could soon lead the way to the complete union that Dulles proposed, Bevin's announcement was a long first step in the right direction. It was bound to influence those who felt, like Dulles, that it was high time for Europe to make a start toward economic unity, at least. It was also the best possible answer to the harshest attack yet made...
...Hoover had missed the whole point and spirit of ERP, had sadly confused long-term recovery with short-term relief. But his words had provided a new rallying point for congressional recalcitrants. The best way to cut the ground from under them again was just such a proposition as Bevin had made: a long-range goal of cooperative selfhelp, which depended on assurance of long-range U.S. support...