Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jews too leaned toward compromise. After informal discussions with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Zionists in London sent an emissary to Jerusalem to win Zionist Inner Council approval for Jewish participation in the conference. The Jews were prepared to go to Lancaster House with a plan for outright partition and "establishment of a viable Jewish state in an adequate area of Palestine...
London's News Chronicle also celebrated the Snail Watchers' anniversary-with a cartoon showing three human heads pondering the imperceptible progress of a snail. But none of them resembled Peter J. Henniker Heaton. One was unmistakably Molotov, one Byrnes, the other Bevin. The snail was labeled: Peace...
...Curiously enough, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was at first dismayed. . . . Further study made the Foreign Office realize, however, that Byrnes's tactics were a remarkable blend of subtlety and realism. Therefore the economic unification of the British and American zones of occupation is now being negotiated here in Berlin, and will soon be undertaken...
...gave the Labor Government another bad turn last week when it elected Arthur Horner as its General Secretary. Horner is a Communist. But so well do the miners like him that they elected Horner only three months after they had flatly rejected affiliation with the Communist Party. Even Ernie Bevin and Herbert Morrison were prepared to admit that Horner was an efficient union leader and a nice chap. But, they fretted, "we wish he wasn't a Communist...
...from home six weeks and the home folks noticed it. Toronto's Saturday Night doubted whether anything he was doing in Paris was as important "as the contribution [he] can make to . . . Canada by returning [home]." Ottawa's Journal agreed: Mr. King at Paris "is seeing Mr. Bevin and Italy's Prime Minister Mr. de Gasperi. We wonder if Mr. King would not be serving Canada more usefully by . . . seeing Mr. Hilton of the Steel Company of Canada and Mr. Millard of the Steel Workers Union...