Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ailing Ernie Bevin, Britain's explosive Foreign Secretary, pulled a hot potato out of the fire in a foreign policy debate in Parliament and tossed it into the lap of his old wartime cabinet colleague Winston Churchill. Britain's present plight in Germany, said Bevin, was the direct result of the "unconditional surrender" policy adopted at Casablanca by Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Winnie passed the buck in a hurry. The policy, he said, was all Roosevelt's idea; he himself had not been consulted before it was proclaimed...
...Molotov, rather than Marshall or Bevin, who had finally educated the West on the subject of Communist danger in Europe. In the same way Mao Tse-tung might educate it about the Communist danger in Asia...
...result of skillful maneuvering, aided by earnest oratory from Attlee, Bevin, Bevan, Morrison and Cripps, the British Labor Party closed its conferences at Blackpool last week on a note of determined unity against the Tory opposition, which was dangerously on the upswing...
...Bevin: "Mr. Vishinsky spends so much time looking up proverbs and quotations, I wonder he has any chance to sleep...
...Bevin: "Some of my most restful sleeps have been at conference tables...