Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the Marshall proposals were announced," said Ernie Bevin in Britain last week, "I grabbed them with both hands...
Dinner in Paris. When Ernie Bevin padded across Westminster's central lobby one day last week, M.P.s looked anxiously at each other. Why was he wasting time in London? But Ernie had merely dropped into the House for a quick lunch. That afternoon, his twin-engined Dakota set him down at Le Bourget. Behind a motorcycle escort with whistles blowing, he and a carful of mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy...
...also made sense to invite the Russians into the great enterprise. Bevin and Bidault quickly saw that. So did Jean-Jacques Granier, 28, a Paris bank clerk currently on strike. Said he: "If the Russians want to come in, that's fine. If they don't, tant pis. That's their business. Ours is to take this chance-mais tout de suite." Although the Communist press grumbled at the Marshall plan, observers believed that even the majority of French Communist voters welcomed it and saw in it the one hope for a stable, peaceful Europe...
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, bearing a mandate from the British cabinet to present Britain's views, was not due until tomorrow. An authoritative report from London said British and United States representatives there had reached "broad and general conclusions" on how U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall's proposal on European aid could best be approached...
...Ernest Bevin...