Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, the Western envoys (Smith, Britain's Frank Roberts and France's Yves Chataigneau) took off for Paris where the U.N. General Assembly was about to meet. All the other principals converged on Paris-from Washington came Secretary of State Marshall, from London Ernie Bevin, from Berlin General Lucius Clay. The visitors were joined by France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. The chief decision they would have to make was whether to continue the delightful talks with Molotov in Paris (if he should decide to come), or whether to throw the Berlin issue into...
...Union must fail miserably. Last week also brought a step toward political unity which was equally important. At The Hague conference on Western Union (TIME, Aug. 2), France had proposed formation of a Western European parliament. The idea had been turned down as premature by Britain's Ernie Bevin and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak. But last week France's doughty Foreign Minister Robert Schuman again went...
...Ernie Bevin still remained chilly. But Paul-Henri Spaak weightily changed his mind, admitted "It is a good idea...
...Watts has been handling explosives and infernal machines for over 33 years. At one time he was mostly concerned with the deadly bundles the Irish Republican Army sent over to blow up English post offices. Since 1945 he has concentrated on letter bombs sent to Churchill, Bevin and other VIPs...
...rebuff and a "delaying action"; it showed that the Kremlin was not willing that the battle of Berlin should play itself out in the strong-arm terms of Western airlift v. Soviet blockade. It helped to dispel, or at least palliate, a war scare in London, where Foreign Minister Bevin had gravely briefed a grave House of Commons. In answer to a question from Winston Churchill, Mr. Bevin said that the demobilization of 20,000 men a month from the British armed forces could be stopped, and probably would...