Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Ernie Bevin and France's Georges Bidault approved the Byrnes plan in principle, but Russia's Viacheslav Molotov promptly countered that before he discussed a treaty to assure Germany's disarmament he would have to know just how far Germany had been disarmed. Tass, the Soviet news agency, was more explicit. It asked whether all Nazi military units had been "really dispersed" in the British zone and said that U.S. authorities, "for some reason or other," had let the Germans keep secret war enterprises...
...York Times story about aspeech of Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin at Paris was the statement: "It must always be kept in mind that Mr. Bevin . . . is talking not only for Great Britain but for the whole British Commonwealth." This apparently innocuous statement was not taken that way by Canadians...
...House of Commons at Ottawa, Maxime Raymond of the nationalistic Bloc Populaire rose to ask Prime Minister Mackenzie King a question: Is it correct that Mr. Bevin spoke for the whole Commonwealth? Did Mr. Bevin speak for Canada...
...Prime Minister answered the way that Maxim Raymond, and every other M.P., knew he would. Said he crisply: "My understanding is that [Mr. Bevin] is representing the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom only." Members on both sides of the House thumped their desks in approval...
...President Félix Gouin's state luncheon, Ernie Bevin tried to link the nations with a "peace cocktail": one-half English gin, one-quarter Russian vodka and one-quarter French vermouth. Gastronomically, at least, things were vastly improved: Gouin's guests ate homard parisienne, poularde du Mans à la broche, pommes noisettes, asperges de Lauris-sauce mousseline, fromages, parfait Grand Marnier, mignardises, accompanied by white Burgundy, red Bordeaux, champagne, coffee, . Armagnac, Benedictine and Cointreau...