Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the U.S. hopes will take over as a provisional government. But disagreement remained on everything else, including the composition of the council. The Russians wanted it to include the Organization of Free German Women, the Farmers' Aid Society, and the Culture Bund-all Communist fronts. Replied Ernie Bevin: "We should consult well-known groups, rather than these others. As a very old propagandist of the Socialist Party, I know a lot about . . . why they exist...
...point of the Moscow proceedings last week, Ernie Bevin sighed and asked helplessly: "Where are we?" Said France's Bidault: "God knows." Cracked Bevin: "I didn't know He was a member of the Council...
...Russias, white shirt fronts gathered in rigid radiance and evening gowns swayed scented attendance: Foreign Minister Molotov was giving a banquet for his fellow peacemakers. The dinner (caviar, pheasant, ice cream) was almost frugal by official Soviet standards, and the toasts were grimly optimistic. Said Ernie Bevin as he proffered his glass: "We four must not let the people of today or tomorrow say there were men who had a chance to save the world and muffed...
Tactics & Strategy. George Marshall drove himself and his colleagues hard. One incident was typical. Bevin suggested that the deputies for Austria be asked to submit their report. Molotov objected: "The Austrian deputies may not be prepared to report on such short notice." Whereupon Marshall snapped in his crispest military tone: "The American deputy will be ready." Half an hour later, the American deputy (General Mark Clark) was told at his hotel to make a progress report next day. Cried he, aghast: "We made a report on London. You mean progress here?" Then he stalked off to write a report...
Although not mentioning communism by name, Bevin declared that the British "do not believe Germany should merely change from the Nazi party to another party, nor Nazi ideology to some other ideology...