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Everywhere, the issues were clarified by the Russian rejection of the "Marshall approach." In London, Richard Grossman, who has opposed Bevin's anti-Russian policy, met with a score of other Labor Party rebels, came out for Bevin's stand. In France, Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier's Cabinet was rescued from a crisis when dissident Socialists, irked by Russia's action, rallied to Ramadier. For the first time at a postwar international conference, France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault got off the fence, spoke unequivocally on the side of the West...
Empty Chairs. Nations, like men, had to take sides. By the time Molotov's plane was nearing the Kremlin, Ernie Bevin once more met with Georges Bidault ("that dear little man," in Ernie's words). They issued invitations for a session to all European nations except Russia-though she was free to come in any time she chose-and Spain...
...looked as though all invited Western European countries would accept. Cried Ernie Bevin at a London Fourth of July celebration: "Thank you for defeating us and producing as a result the wonderful United States of America. You can have your Revolution, your Bunker Hills and your Yorktowns, but nothing will ever separate...
During the first meeting around the brand-new green baize (the old cloth had been stolen by a souvenir hunter after last year's peace conference), Molotov sat and listened to Bevin and Bidault. They wanted to establish international commissions to Marshall-plan European recovery on a continental basis. Then, with instructions from the Kremlin, Molotov spoke...
...Thanks. That did it. Bevin flatly rejected Molotov's dilatory proposals. Roared he: "How would the Soviet Union like it if she were asked for a blank check?" The British broke the conference's strict news blackout with an announcement that the session had ended in "complete disagreement...