Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Ernest Bevin, chosen president of the conference, was hopeful. "If you're off to a good start, and your wind is right," he said, "you are likely to finish." When he adjourned the first session, Bevin said: "This is the fastest conference I ever attended...
...Against participation) "Unattractive as this idea will be to Congress, it will realize that it has no alternative. Bevin and Bidault are strong enough to keep the requests within reason. If we get into this thing we will have to let the Eastern European countries in; that means they will be trading freely with Western Europe, and will be drawn out of our orbit. We must back away and try to save what we can-Eastern Europe...
Empty Chairs. Nations, like men, had to take sides. By the time Molotov's plane was nearing the Kremlin, Ernie Bevin once more met with Georges Bidault ("that dear little man," in Ernie's words). They issued invitations for a session to all European nations except Russia-though she was free to come in any time she chose-and Spain...
...looked as though all invited Western European countries would accept. Cried Ernie Bevin at a London Fourth of July celebration: "Thank you for defeating us and producing as a result the wonderful United States of America. You can have your Revolution, your Bunker Hills and your Yorktowns, but nothing will ever separate...
...asked the public not to contribute to what it called "Traitors, Inc." "With your money," said the ad, "the Irgun and Stern groups killed 81 Britons, 59 Arabs and 42 Jews during the last eight months. . . . Every time Ben Hecht 'makes a holiday in his heart' Ernest Bevin sends in more reinforcements. . . .Haganah has repatriated 34,000 Jews to Palestine, the American League for a Free Palestine only...