Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, the Big Four Foreign Ministers walked into the red marble "grand salon" of the Palais Rose, on Paris' majestic Avenue Foch. Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky came in side by side with Britain's Ernie Bevin. Vishinsky laid his papers down on the huge green conference table, then quickly walked up to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, shook his hand. "I am glad to see you again," said Vishinsky. It was noted that the Russian grinned amiably...
...Paris, where Dean Acheson had been meeting over the weekend with France's Robert Schuman and Britain's Ernie Bevin, the West announced complete solidarity. Acheson, who is in his first major encounter with the Russians, will presumably carry the ball for the West...
...peace treaty for Austria (the Foreign Ministers' deputies have vainly tried to draft an Austrian treaty for the past 2½ years). Vishinsky also suggested that a peace treaty for Japan be taken up, but Acheson countered that the U.S. wished "no hasty consideration" of the question. When Bevin asked whether agreement on Germany would be a precondition for discussing Austria, Vishinsky replied that it was not, and added: "But we are going to agree on everything here...
...That," said Ernest Bevin, "depends...
...last thoroughly awake, worked harder than Labor to get out the vote. By week's end, the Conservatives had captured a prize beyond their fondest hopes: they had chalked up a net gain of 829 seats, while Labor had lost 633. The Tory tide swallowed Wandsworth, Ernie Bevin's home borough, and Herbert Morrison's own stamping grounds of Lewisham. The Conservatives registered big gains in London's working-class Hammersmith and Holborn districts. Moaned one Labor official: "It turns our stomach...