Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain in the gloomy yet still hopeful summer of 1946. The daughter can (and does) document her case with Labor's achievements-some of which are not recognized at home or abroad. In the field of foreign policy, even the Tory father says: "Thank God for Ernie Bevin." He does not mean that Bevin is a mental giant. He senses, as do most Britons, that the Laborites can carry out better than the Tories a certain foreign policy indispensable to Britain's national interests...
That policy falls into three parts: 1) close friendship with the U.S., 2) opposition to Russian expansion, 3) gradual liquidation of the British Empire. Tories and Laborites alike can cooperate with the U.S. But Bevin, the proletarian, can speak up to Russia as Churchill, the aristocrat, could not. When "Ole Ernie" warns of the Soviet danger British workers listen. If the Tories said the same words, British workers would consider them more "imperialist bilge...
...Silver-haired Anthony Eden, handsomer than his pictures make him out to be, rises and wants to know what the Government has done about the Mihailovitch trial in the light of the fact that the British government supported the Chetnik leader for two years. Heavy-set, tough-looking Ernest Bevin lurches to his feet and answers that the British government made certain information known to the Yugoslav government, but could not interfere further in a trial in a sovereign nation. And so the business goes on until the questions are exhausted. Then to the major business...
Finally, at 9:15, Ernie Bevin's small brown eyes wearily encompassed the gilded room, of which everyone was heartily sick by now. As last-day chairman of the conference, he asked: "Any more items?" Bidault waved his hands in a negative gesture. Molotov gazed stonily through the window at the dusk settling over the Luxembourg Gardens. Byrnes shook his head and absently kept penciling a pattern of diminishing circles on a loose sheet of paper. "All right," said Bevin at 9:17. "We meet again at the Peace Conference...
...economic reconstruction and the centralized government called for in Molotov's plan be started immediately by 1) lifting of zonal boundaries, 2) establishment of a central administration to which even the French had now agreed. But Molotov, despite his grand promises, refused. His stand forced Byrnes and Bevin to announce that the U.S. and British zones would merge. This should complete Germany's long-emerging division into an Eastern and a Western Reich...