Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Measuring with the Feet. Grim was the only word for the two-day meeting round the green-clothed, rectangular table in Room No. 49 of the Dutch Foreign Office. Britain's Ernest Bevin was unsmiling and the nervous twitch at the right corner of his mouth was more pronounced than ever. France's Georges Bidault (about to lose his job, partly because he had lost popularity by going along with the U.S. on a program of German recovery) made his points tensely, striking the table with the edge of his hand. The Dutch host-chairman, Baron van Boetzelaer...
...said that men of Celtic fire were needed to bring about great reforms like the new health service. That was why, he explained, Welshmen were put in charge instead of "the bovine and phlegmatic Anglo-Saxons." How Bevan's Labor associates, including Anglo-Saxons Attlee, Morrison and Bevin, liked that one was not revealed. Unphlegmatic Anglo-Saxon Winston Churchill, however, put his head down and charged. Said he: "We speak of the Minister of Health-but ought we not rather to say the Minister of Disease; for is not morbid hatred a form of mental disease, and indeed...
With these voices in the battle of Berlin mingled many others, in various accents, all saying essentially what the G.I.s were saying in their own way. Said Ernest Bevin in the House of Commons: "None of us can accept surrender." Replied Harold Macmillan, speaking for His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition: "We must . . . face the risk of war . . . The alternative policy-to shrink from the issue-involves not merely the risk but the almost certainty of war." In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall said: "We intend to stay...
...order which would in effect brand the Arabs as aggressors. Amid cheers from the spectators' gallery, U.S. Delegate Warren Austin sided with Russia. It was only after the Russian motion had been voted down by the Council that the U.S. switched its support to the British proposal. Ernie Bevin's formula thus became the basis last week of U.N.'s latest approach to a Palestine solution...
...Proxy? But Bevin, and a good many plain Britons who had hoped they had heard the last of the Palestine mess, were sputtering through a chain reaction of anger. Wrote London's News Chronicle: "If President Truman would take a long, long voyage far out into the sea and speak to no one, there might be some hope of reaching an agreement . . ." Britain's sober Economist pointed a grimmer lesson: "If it [the crisis] is allowed to develop unchecked, the Americans will raise their arms embargo in order to supply the Jews with weapons; and if Britain continues...