Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smiling Vagrants. The peace-pact talk, as the U.S.'s Warren Austin pointed out bitterly, was window-dressing: Moscow had spurned the U.S. offer for such a pact over Germany three years ago. The atomic-ban talk, as Britain's Ernie Bevin bluntly put it, was stupid; again & again, the U.S. had proposed genuine international control by a U.N. atomic-energy commission, and a vast Assembly majority approved the U.S.-backed plan (TIME, Dec. 20). But the Russians, while piously asking all nations to take the pledge and outlaw atomic weapons, 1) insisted that the U.S. chuck...
With Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin also in Switzerland for a rest cure, Prime Minister Clement Attlee was left alone to face Britain's mounting economic crisis. By the beginning of August, world confidence in the pound had fallen dangerously. Attlee sent Board of Trade President Harold Wilson to Switzerland to consult with Bevin and Cripps. Attlee felt a decision could no longer be postponed. Cripps was still against devaluation...
Franks was then sent to Downing Street to give Churchill the right set of figures. Bevin was deeply impressed by Franks as "the only man in the Ministry of Supply whom Beaverbrook couldn't bully...
...pick of many glittering big business jobs. He turned them all down to go back to Oxford as provost of his old college. But the following year, in 1947, when a stricken and bankrupt Europe was feverishly fingering the hope just held out by the Marshall Plan, Ernie Bevin, now Foreign Minister, called Franks from his cloister to head the British delegation to the 16-nation Paris conference...
British Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin, winding up talks in Washington this week, was leaving behind a personal memento: his lower eyetooth, yanked a fortnight ago. Well-worn, silver-filled, double-rooted, but slightly smaller than the average, the Bevin tooth will be enshrined at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, along with the bridgework-of Japan's General Tomoyulci (the "Tiger of Malaya") Yamashlta, hanged for war crimes...