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Britain's Ernie Bevin and France's Georges Bidault approved the Byrnes plan in principle, but Russia's Viacheslav Molotov promptly countered that before he discussed a treaty to assure Germany's disarmament he would have to know just how far Germany had been disarmed. Tass, the Soviet news agency, was more explicit. It asked whether all Nazi military units had been "really dispersed" in the British zone and said that U.S. authorities, "for some reason or other," had let the Germans keep secret war enterprises...
...print frocks strolled beneath the blooming chestnuts, and swung through the faded green wooden gates into the courtyard of the Luxembourg Palace. A black, bullet-proof Cadillac yielded a grey, tired-looking Molotov. As the courtyard clock struck 4, an oldfashioned, boxlike Daimler arrived. Red-faced, breathing heavily, Ernie Bevin half ran up the steps as if afraid he would be late...
...President Félix Gouin's state luncheon, Ernie Bevin tried to link the nations with a "peace cocktail": one-half English gin, one-quarter Russian vodka and one-quarter French vermouth. Gastronomically, at least, things were vastly improved: Gouin's guests ate homard parisienne, poularde du Mans à la broche, pommes noisettes, asperges de Lauris-sauce mousseline, fromages, parfait Grand Marnier, mignardises, accompanied by white Burgundy, red Bordeaux, champagne, coffee, . Armagnac, Benedictine and Cointreau...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin beamed; his bull-necked insistence on holding the elections, he felt, was now justified. Just as beamish were the Greek election winners, the royalist Populist Party, led by Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris. For the time being, the Populists, despite the presence in their ranks of some extremist reactionary elements, moved warily; thousands of Greeks who had turned against the Left because of EAM terror last year might swing back if the Right disclosed a mailed fist. As Premier of a small coalition Cabinet (Right and Center) they chose Panayotis Poulitsas, an amiable nonpartisan...
Less deft was a British bid for France's favor. Because President Felix Gouin had hinted that the Rhineland need not necessarily be severed from Germany, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin tried to reopen talks on a Franco-British alliance. But Socialist Gouin's Cabinet colleagues strenuously objected. As torchbearers for Charles de Gaulle (who, in retirement at Marly-le-Roi, spoke of the time "quand je reviens-when I return"), the Popular Republicans (M.R.P.) held out stubbornly for the "political internationalization" of Western Germany. The Communists suspected that French, British and German Socialists were plotting another Socialist version...