Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treaty would lead George Marshall on through weeks of stalemate on Germany. If so, the Russians were wrong. Clearly, Marshall did not intend to sit through another version of last winter's Moscow Conference, which accomplished nothing but the propagation of international ill will. Britain's Ernest Bevin was of like mind. He said last week: "No one can accuse me of being impatient . . . but there comes an end." If the conference does not reach agreement, "I am not going to be a party to keeping the world in chaos...
...expert on Germany, Ambassador Robert D. Murphy; Patrick Dean of the British Foreign Office; Andrei A. Smirnov of Russia's Foreign Ministry; and France's career diplomat Jacques Tarbe de St. Hardouin. Their job was not to negotiate, merely to set' up the issues which Marshall, Bevin, Bidault and Molotov would consider...
Within a fortnight of his appointment, Cripps had come to overshadow Attlee and Herbert Morrison and even Ernest Bevin. Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton sulked in Cripps's long shadow. The Government now had direction, drive and vision. If British recovery failed under Cripps it would be because 1) world conditions forbade recovery, or 2) democratic socialism would not work, or 3) both...
...device for the economic and political control of the world. They charged that the U.S. and Britain had fought World War II purely for imperialist reasons. Specifically named as "imperialist toadies" and traitors to the working class were Britain's Prime Minister Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; France's Premier Ramadier and Socialist Leader Leon Blum, Italy's Giuseppe Saragat, and Dr. Kurt Schumacher, German Social Democratic leader...
...plea for $3 billion to provide currency reserves seemed to some officials like a mere rephrasing of Ernie Bevin's suggestion for "redistributing" the buried gold at Fort Knox...