Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russians were scarcely more surprised by the swiftness and stiffness of the U.S. note than Britons, many of whom, familiar with hit & run U.S. foreign policy, are fearful of being left to face Russia alone. London's leftist New Statesman & Nation counseled caution: "Mr. Bevin would be well advised to remember that... his bid for American support in Palestine has failed spectacularly and left us far worse off. ... Can he expect any better results elsewhere in the Middle East...
...McNeil won a seat in Parliament after two unsuccessful tries. Ernie Bevin, an authority in plain speaking, recognized McNeil's quality, appointed him Under Secretary. At Paris as stand-in for the ailing Bevin, McNeil may have somewhat overplayed his act as a simple country boy among the slick diplomatic professionals. He professed ignorance so often that Russia's Vishinsky last week cracked: "Perhaps Mr. McNeil is right about himself...
...domestic front, which is closer though not less important to Britons, Bevin's counterpart is Herbert Morrison. To him goes the credit and the blame for what Labor did and did not do to raise the lives of Britons above the level most of them had come to consider intolerable. The British electorate, being human, would judge the Labor Party by how much food and clothes and fun Herbert Morrison managed to get for them, rather than by how loudly Ernie Bevin's voice boomed out in international councils...
Both Prime Minister Attlee, whose quiet good sense has impressed the voters, and big-hearted Ernie Bevin are more popular than Morrison. Morrison, however, has a way of stubbornly getting around the Prime Minister. Bevin and Morrison dislike each other, but that does not prevent them from working together. Morrison's present position is somewhat like that of Jimmy Byrnes when he was "Assistant President" of the U.S.-except that Morrison's position is more active and more important. Says he: "Maybe I wasn't born to rule, but I've got used...
Viacheslav Molotov got a nice friendly pat on his pudgy face. Said Rosane Taillefere, a beauteous blonde secretary at the recent Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers: "Mr. Bevin was too stout . . . Mr. Byrnes . . . seemed just a small man . . . but Mr. Molotov-ah! He had such lovely blue eyes...