Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acheson, almost everyone expected that their conversations would be of the dull and profitless sort that are officially known as "exploratory." The talks proved to be nothing of the kind. Last week, after months of recriminations, bickerings and mutual suspicions, France's Robert Schuman, Britain's Ernest Bevin, and Acheson swiftly compromised their quarrels and wrote what amounted to an interim peace treaty for Western Germany...
...were two other events last week in Washington: the move to arm the Atlantic community, and the Senate's authorization of full ECA aid to Europe. Ernest Bevin, hurrying back to London, called it "a great week's work in the history of the world...
...wide spaces first, to plead the case for Italian trusteeship of her former African colonies. The Netherlands' Dr. Dirk U. Stikker talked to Secretary Acheson for two hours, and was pressed to come to terms with Indonesia's republicans. Britain's Foreign Secretary, heavy-footed Ernest Bevin, and France's wispy Robert Schuman met with Acheson and agreed with unexpected rapidity that a Western German government must be set up promptly, a decision that had been stalled for months in lower-level talks...
Great Step. Laborite Bevin also dropped in at the National Press Club and won reporters' applause by his simple, rough-hewn ways/and his defense of the pact. Said Bevin: "To would-be aggressors, it says: 'Think twice-think thrice' ... I believe as the years go on it will be said of this week in Washington: 'There, in that pact, humanity took its great step to enthrone the great freedoms of the world...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson conferred on Germany with both France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Some progress toward agreement was reported, especially in the talks with Schuman, who has consistently taken a more reasonable view than French officials in Germany. The main question under discussion with the French is their insistence on breaking Germany up into small semi-autonomous governmental units...