Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furtherance of this design, Churchill and Bevin begged the House of Commons to accept a temporary U.S. monopoly of atomic manufacture. They gave exaggerated, un-British praise to President Truman's "Twelve Points" of U.S. foreign policy. And Attlee, promoting an international pooling of atomic knowledge and research, clearly assumed that at the start the U.S.-British Big Two would manage the pool...
...Higher Plane. With more dexterity than he is usually given credit for, Attlee left the atomic and power-political grubbing to Churchill and Bevin. Two days later, just before his departure for Washington, the Prime Minister spoke of the atomic bomb on a plane reached in the U.S. only by Captain Harold E. Stassen and Senator Joseph H. Ball (see below). Said Attlee to an audience of London businessmen...
...first time since The Bomb burst, a great government cracked down on its talkative, uneasy atomic scientists. The government was Britain's; the crack-downers were Ernest Bevin and his temporary collaborator, Winston Churchill...
...Echoed Bevin: "His Majesty's Government cannot surrender either their power or their duty in the field of government to any section of the community. . . . When you select people to enter into the study and research of these things, and they know of and have, indeed, entered into an understanding to observe not only the Official Secrets Act but the honor of their own country, then that ought to be observed and respected in carrying out their duty...
...scientists had been noisier than their British brothers. But all had one characteristic in common: evangelically sure that something must be done, they were lost when they faced the political questions of what to do and how to do it. The atom, as Churchill and Bevin said, had not relieved statesmen of the responsibility for doing statesmen's work...