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...agitation for a troop census by giving the figure on U.S. forces abroad: 550,000. Most of them, he added, were in occupation areas. There were 96,000 in the Philippines, only 19,000 in China. Russia, he thought, had many more in Manchuria. Britain's Bevin, who had no ready figures, nevertheless added his bit: Britain's total army was now under 1,000,000. About the Red Army, Molotov said nothing...
When a diplomat once asked Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin what his foreign policy really was, Bevin replied: "To go down to Victoria Station, get a railway ticket and go where the hell I like without a passport or anything else...
This week Bevin's ideal will be partially fulfilled. An agreement will be signed in London abolishing visa requirements for French and British citizens who cross the English Channel for short visits in France or Britain. Formal negotiations with The Netherlands and Belgium will probably come next...
Going Concern. The agreement signed by Secretary of State James Byrnes and British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin formalizes a setup devised by the U.S. Army's Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and his British opposite number, Lieut. General Sir Brian Robertson. The Clay-Robertson plan established five bipartite, interzonal policy committees to supervise finance, economics, transport, communications, food and agriculture. Actual administration is left to six-man German joint committees in each of these fields. Clay and Robertson guessed that the program would cost the U.S. and Britain $1,000,000,000 over the next three years...
...clumsy review entitled Between Ourselves, due to open in London's West End next week, ran into censorship trouble with the Lord Chamberlain for lampooning those Laborites (including Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin) who occasionally drop...