Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, at a stormy meeting of 300 Labor M.P.s, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin won a resounding victory over pro-Communist critics. His foreign policy was endorsed by a vote of 260-to-6, with 34 abstentions. In a belligerent statement...
Rarely had a treaty been so quickly proposed, prepared and signed. At UNO's London meeting, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had announced Britain's intention to give up its League of Nations mandate for Trans-Jordan. The following week King George invited Emir Abdullah to London. Within a month the negotiations had been completed. They left Trans-Jordan still tied to Britain by a fairly strong military and economic rope. Trans-Jordan was to provide facilities for the training and movement of British troops, and her communications were to be developed with British money and in consultation with...
...more Miss Frankie Miller worried. Finally she sat down and wrote Britain's Foreign Minister a letter about it. Instead of mailing the letter, she took it to the New York Times, paid $693 to have it printed last week as an ad. Said Frankie Miller to Ernie Bevin: "Humbly I beg your Excellency to have the [liberation] of South Tyrol brought before the UNO. ... I also challenge the zone occupation of Austria...
Anders argued that he could not advise the soldiers to return to Poland unless the Polish Government promised elections this spring. Bevin, too, wanted immediate Polish elections, but both men knew that the chances were becoming slimmer...
Nevertheless, Bevin argued that, elections or no, the Poles in Anders' army should go home. Little by little Anders got the idea. Anders must depend on British transport facilities. If the general did not cooperate, he might find it even harder to rejoin his troops in Italy than to get a hotel room in London...