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...first the packed House of Commons was disappointed. Listening M.P.s had to remind themselves that Ernie Bevin was making history. He read his speech from typescript, too rapidly, sometimes gobbling his words. Afterwards, in the lobbies, Laborites agreed that "Ernie was bloody awful" in his delivery. But the history was in what he said, not in how he said...
...part of their meat and fats to the Ruhr next month. If it worked, Ruhr tension would be eased. But what about the other Western Germans, plenty of whom were having thin scrabbling (see cut)? Was divvying up the rations just another way of divvying discontent? In London, Ernie Bevin sent an urgent personal note to George Marshall warning that German hunger and unrest would likely grow worse. And there were other tensions...
After the London Foreign Ministers' Conference breakup, Ernest Bevin said: "We have no aim . . . to divide the world [But] we cannot go on as we have been going on. . . . We have hoped against hope that four-power collaboration would work. . . . We shall close no doors...
...Neither Bevin nor any of the other ministers last week gave a clear indication of what their nations would try to do next. Yet the pattern was fairly clear: 1) the U.S. and Britain would try (with or without French cooperation) to put their zones of Germany to work; 2) through the Marshall Plan, the U.S. would try to lift distressed Europe out of Communist danger; 3) Russia would try to wreck both these plans...
British Labor promptly hit back. Arthur Deakin, Ernie Bevin's successor as head of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,250,000 members), called on British Labor to oust Communists from their high councils*: "The activities of the Communists within the trade unions are mainly directed to propagating their political faith. . . . We cannot afford to allow the Communists' attempted infiltration into and domination of the trade unions to succeed...