Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world that the Truman Doctrine meant imperialism and slavery. Even some French non-Communists thought that the Socialist dirigisme-the "directed economy"-would be lost by listening to advice from the U.S. (see cut). In Britain a large and vocal bloc in the British Labor Party urged Ernest Bevin to steer clear of dependence on the U.S. (see below...
...effect that U.S. folks don't understand the Russians but should, the Post ran it-and added a self-conscious little note saying: "Readers may be interested to know that the series . . . precipitated as lively a debate in the editorial rooms . . . as ever taxed the capacities of Messrs. Bevin, Byrnes and Molotov. . . . I believe it is high time that such an interpretation should be presented in a magazine of large circulation-in a magazine whose conservatism is so well known that it cannot be suspected of leftist leanings...
...Foreign Ministers filed into the conference room for their 44th, and final, session at 4 p.m., everything had been said that could be said. Molotov plodded over the familiar ground, trying to explain Russia's refusal to join the U.S. in a 40-year demilitarization treaty on Germany. Bevin, in the chair, looked at Marshall. "Any comment?" he asked. "No comment," said Marshall. Molotov again summed up Russia's demands for all property seized by the Germans in Austria. "Any comment?" asked Bevin. "No comment," said Marshall...
...Germany (with a June 1 deadline for agreement on the size of forces), the Foreign Ministers said the polite things one says to his host. Marshall smilingly thanked Molotov for keeping chain-smoking U.S. Adviser Ben Cohen in cigarets. As Cohen blushed and glanced at his plateful of butts, Bevin said, "Well, we can help on that too," tossed Cohen a pack of English cigarets. At 7:35, with a round of handshaking, the conference adjourned...
Echeloned in Depth. Next day the guests departed-the Americans by plane, the British and French by special trains-making the small, cheerful sounds appropriate to the occasion. As Bevin climbed on his special train, Vishinsky warbled, in Russian, a drinking song, "The more we get together the merrier we'll be." Bevin descended to the platform, joined the chorus: "For your friends are my friends, and my friends are your friends." The next merry get-together of the peripatetic Foreign Ministers Conference is scheduled for London in November, with possibly a preliminary warm-up at the New York...