Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already named to Barnes's first team are some of the Trib's top reporters. Walter B. Kerr, who "has been living with Byrnes, Molotov and Bevin for months," will trail diplomats. Lanky A. T. Steele, a veteran of Far East coverage, will stick to what he knows best. Pulitzer Prizewinning Homer Bigart's assignment: trouble. As a war correspondent he got schooling for covering riots, revolutions, and world violence, lately has been doing post-graduate work in Palestine and Poland. Says Joe Barnes: "We can't use men who have been stuck in one capital...
...strike. With Britain fighting for her commercial life, there has been a strong prejudice against any form of work stoppage. To prevent grievances, pecuniary and spiritual, there exists a well defined system of mediation boards with broad powers, set up by the Attlee cabinet in 1945. Ernie Bevin, Britain's Foreign Minister, was formerly boss of the truckers before elevation to his present position. By any standard the strike should not have taken place, and surely not in the union which threw a scare into all London...
...appointment of General Marshall to fill his place must be received with mixed emotions. After an almost disastrous beginning, Mr. Byrnes had steadily grown up in the job, learning how to be firm but not hostile with the Russians, learning where American self-interest in walking the Bevin chalk line ended and pulling British chestnuts out of the fire began. In a large measure, the over-all success of the recent meeting of the U.N. Assembly in New York is owning to the efforts of a man who it is now revealed wanted to resign as long ago as last...
...them) began to move in converging lines. In April the Russians scornfully turned their backs on Byrnes's offer of a 25-year German disarmament treaty. That completed Byrnes's education; the bipartisan policy of patience and firmness became the most important new factor in world politics. Bevin was glad to slide gradually into a back seat and let Byrnes, who represented the real power in the Anglo-U.S. combination, do the talking for the West...
Byrnes has read little; he lacks the born statesman's personal dignity. The other night at U.N. he pushed and elbowed through the hat-check crowd for 15 minutes, while Bevin and Molotov went out special exits after having their coats brought to them...