Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin earlier had submitted a similar proposal but in much greater detail, and warned Russia that Britain would not stand for any "one party" system in Germany...
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin replied curtly that he could not accept a proposal where one power blocked all negotiations until it gets its way on one point...
...people, except for a brief period at remote Yalta." His blue eyes twinkled at the word "remote," as though it could be taken to mean not only Yalta's distance in time & space, but also the remoteness of Yalta's mood of fatuous confidence. That afternoon, Ernie Bevin, 66 that day, dropped in on Molotov, who had turned 57 on the same day; the double birthday party was not festive...
Amidst the rejoicing over the Douglas appointment, there was a slightly grating note in Anglo-American relations last week. In Parliament Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin charged that Harry Truman and Tom Dewey had played politics last October when they vied with each other in recommending the immediate mass admission of Jews to Palestine...
...politicians knew that Bevin was right. But U.S. Senators roared: if anyone had played politics with Palestine, it was the British Government. At week's end a chastened Bevin hoped wistfully that the whole affair was just "a matter which stands by itself. . . . We for our part shall not allow any wedge to be driven between the two countries...