Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Foreign Ministry in Paris last week, the delegates of 16 Western European nations, headed by Britain's Ernest Bevin, put their signatures to a document embodying their ideas on what the Marshall Plan should be. The document was promptly transmitted to Washington...
Many people found it hard to believe that the decision lay with this small, insignificant and, in some respects, inadequate man. Would not the giants of his party, Ernest Bevin, Sir Stafford Cripps, Herbert Morrison, Hugh Dalton, or Aneurin Bevan, fight it out among them and then tell Attlee what to do? They were having their fights, and the outcome would in part determine what Attlee decided. But individually or collectively, they could not tell him what to do. Clement Attlee embodies all the little virtues of little Englishmen. Their power is his power. Moreover, Attlee is not insignificant...
...Government had studied every alternative before concluding that import restrictions were inescapable. British Foreign Secretary Bevin's idea of an Empire customs union was quickly rejected, for it would force Canada into the sterling bloc. Some Canadians suggested economic union with the U.S.-razing tariff walls and eventually tearing down the customs houses. This was politically impossible; in 1911 Sir Wilfrid Laurier's government was tossed out for proposing a milder trade reciprocity. Besides, economic union would almost certainly lead to political union...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was having a friendly dinner with visiting American Legionnaires at London's Savoy Hotel last week. As he referred to "this awful economic crisis," Bevin had a sudden thought. Said he to the Legion's former National Commander Paul Griffith: "I know, Commander, that you will forgive me for suggesting the other day at Southport that you should take the gold out of Fort Knox. It does not seem to have been a very popular speech in America." While the diners laughed, Bevin continued: "Well, I do not mind whether...
...after Bevin's casual reference to Lend-Lease, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton made a not-so-casual plea for crisis aid from the International Bank (whose staff calls its present quarters, one of London's deepest air-raid shelters, "the second Fort Knox"). Bank President John J. McCloy pointed out that the Bank was designed to make only commercially sound loans, attractive to private investors, and not to grant emergency aid not likely to be repaid...