Word: bevin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This British attitude is not new. It was concealed by the traditional British stiff upper lip and by such bold flashes as Churchill's Fulton speech of 1946 and Ernest Bevin's stand against the Russians at the 1947 London Conference. But underneath, the British know that in a military sense their position is indefensible...
...Commons that the People's Government of China was sending a charge d'affaires to London. All over the House there were murmurs of approval. Laborite Desmond Donnelly rose to remark that here at last was "long-delayed justification of the initiative originally taken by Ernest Bevin in 1950"; Socialists cheered, and Clement Attlee, who is leaving in August on a junket to Peking, nodded his approval...
Britain's ERNEST BEVIN "was bluff and hearty, easily angered and quickly repentant. Mr. Molotov treated him as a banderillero treats a bull, planting darts that would arouse him to an outburst . On one occasion, Bevin was provoked into saying that Mr. Molotov talked like Hitler . . . Molotov jumped to his feet and stalked to the door. Mr. Bevin, with contrition, hastened to explain away his heated words and, as a mark of his sincerity . . . [conceded] the point in dispute...
...this day his white-collar origins embarrass Molotov. Once, when he was fulminating about the rights of the toiling masses, Britain's Bevin. a dockhand turned diplomat, rocked him with the question: "What do you know about workers?" Bevin waved his big, work-callused hands in Molotov's reddening face, and demanded: "Show me yours!" The Communist Foreign Minister, whose hands are soft as a banker's, kept them out of sight...
There will be some vacancies, but as Bevin says, "it'll be hard to tell just how many. People leave for all sorts of reasons," he added...