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...union organizer, Bevin knew that the only way to alter historical processes was by organization. As a Socialist, Bevin recognized the meaning of the satellite bloc Russia is forming on her borders. He has long been eager to balance it with a Socialist grouping in Western Europe. Communists-but not the Kremlin-have said that such a move would be a threat to Russia. Bevin told the House of Commons that he had "deliberately raised" the question at Moscow last December with Stalin: "You want friendly neighbors. Well, in my street I want friendly neighbors too." He reminded Stalin...
...quick shift to the offense, Moscow accused Canadian Prime Minister King of launching an "unbridled anti-Soviet campaign . . . aimed at inflicting political harm on the Soviet Union." Echoed Pravda: "Mr. King barged out to give aid to Mr. Bevin who put the British Government into a difficult position with his speeches ... at the United Nations...
...tarnished grandeur, Britain still had elbow grease for bigger jobs than Covent Garden. Burly Ernie Bevin was one link between the two. As he left, a dowager spotted him and cried: "There he is! I must touch him." She had to stretch...
...Attlee and Bevin, most of the Cabinet appeared in evening dress. But leftist Health Minister Aneurin Bevan inevitably went in a sack suit, his leftist-M.P. wife Jennie Lee in her usual red tweed coat and lizard-skin shoes. Outside the royal box there were only two tiaras. And Covent Garden's scarlet-&-gold opulence had been restored mostly by mere elbow grease. Explained the manager: "Very little new paint has been used, and then only in cases where it was necessary for cleanliness. . . . There is hardly a spot of new gilt anywhere in the theater...
...since the Allied victory in Europe had Francisco Franco seemed so confident and cocky. The bitter Bevin-Vishinsky debate at UNO offered new life to his Government. British Laborites expressed sympathy for the Spanish Republic, looked with favor upon the monarchy. But Britain's Government preferred Franco to a renewal of civil war. Fighting might result in a radical republic, an extension of Russia's influence into the western Mediterranean...