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...best backhanded Soviet fashion, Stalin gave Russians their first news of the offer Ernie Bevin announced Feb. 21: to turn the 20-year Anglo-Russian friendship pact into a 50-year treaty. Stalin said that Churchill's warmongering speech made the present pact "an empty scrap of paper." He implied that he no longer considered it valid himself: "Problems of the duration of a treaty have no sense if one of the parties violates the treaty...
...Bevin with Knobs. Amidst all these alarms came Churchill's blunt speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), to carry still further the sequence of plain talking among the Big Three which began in January with the Bevin-Vishinsky clashes at UNO. Said a bitter left-wing Labor M.P.: "It was Bevin with knobs...
...leading spokesman for Europe's socialist democrats, Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, who has said he detests Fascist Spain, was well aware of the desperately delicate situation. He and non-socialist democrats were struggling against Communism for the political soul of Europe, for the trust of men who would never again trust those who tolerated Franco. The U.S. was more remote from the scene, but as the leading power of the democratic coalition, the U.S. was not remote from the responsibility...
...earnest: popular-magazine illustrators Frederic Varady, Al Buell and Mortimer Wilson decided that the taurine author's head was one of the six "most startling and exciting heads in the world . . . faunlike." The other pre-eminent polls: Admiral William F. Halsey, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, U.A.W. Leader Walter Reuther, Cinemactor Tyrone Power, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover...
...dynamic foreign policy (see below). Vandenberg's plea, applauded by the nation, was a clear challenge. Byrnes's fellow delegate to the UNO London conference had not even mentioned the fact that Byrnes was also there. The omission was almost contemptuous. Vandenberg had pointed to Stettinius, Vishinsky, Bevin (especially Bevin, who had so inspired the Senator that "my hat flew off"). Byrnes had given the delegation little or no guidance. Over the months he had lost prestige. He had not even done very effectively the thing he does best-wangle good compromises...