Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French official quoted British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin as saying "the case is hopeless," at the conclusion of his third session with George Bidault of France and Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov...
...Bevin had indicated previously Great Britain would proceed with U. S. Secretary George C. Marshall's plan without Russian cooperation if necessary, and the decision by France to join Britain would mean the formation of a western bloc...
...Bevin flew back to London two days later, and in a memorable speech in the House of Commons he made official Jean-Jacques Granier's reaction. Pounding a dispatch box with his heavy hands, Bevin said: "The reply of the Soviet Government is awaited . . . [but] I shall not be a party to holding up the economic recovery of Europe by the finesse of procedure, or terms of reference, or all the paraphernalia which may go with it." Bevin added that he as Foreign Secretary of Britain had been helpless because he had "neither coal nor goods nor credit...
Economic conferences would start immediately. Moscow, after some-confusion, decided to pull up for a closer look. The Russians complained that they did not know what the Marshall plan meant-or what Bevin and Bidault had been up to-but they agreed to a British-French-Russian exploratory conference in Paris, this week...
...minor disappointment. Bevin had asked for snails (which he learned to like during the Paris Conference last summer), but had not given the Embassy chef enough notice. At dessert, fruit had to be substituted for strawberry melba, be cause, at the last moment, the iceman (striking for five francs more an hour) did not come...