Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply to the Russians, the West had a slogan of its own. The slogan was "freedom." The West wanted German unity, too, but only on democratic terms. It certainly wanted peace, but not at any price. Said Britain's Ernest Bevin: "We may even be called 'comrades' again. You never know." Then he added grimly that Russia was still talking peace while carrying on a "policy of promoting unsettlement all around...
Britain's Ernie Bevin journeyed to Berlin last week to have a look at history. He said: "I want to get Europe settled for a couple of hundred years. I don't think it is beyond the realm of possibility. But it will take a lot of time, a lot of patience, a lot of work...
...Ernest Bevin spoke the hope of millions of people who, having feared last year that the Berlin crisis might mean imminent war, now believed that the end of the Berlin blockade was at least the beginning of peace. In many quarters, the notion grew that the Russians were undertaking a strategic withdrawal from Europe. This attitude was balanced by a note of uneasy caution. Many observers found that by & large in their press and radio the Communists were being their usual difficult selves. Said U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery: "The flowers of peace cannot be expected to bloom...
...Guessing Game. The settlement of which Ernest Bevin spoke, if it ever could be achieved at all, might take a long chain of other Berlins-of similar hard-won victories from Seoul to Trieste. The West had learned that for decades to come it faced more or less permanent duty on the ramparts of freedom. The point was that the West's position had improved immeasurably since the Berlin blockade began...
...Britain and France last week reached agreement on a blueprint for Western Germany. In eight days of intensive conferences in Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman accomplished more than they and their regiments of advisers had in the past eight months...