Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changing world of the atom, everything suddenly changed. Statesmen strove to raise the atomic debate from the depths of frightened nationalism to the heights of a new internationalism. Two British spokesmen, Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin (see FOREIGN NEWS) strove to bend that internationalism to the uses of a strengthened Anglo-American power alignment, and Clement Attlee tried to sell both ideas to Harry Truman (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Little Two? Between them, Churchill and Bevin sped Attlee to Washington with the clearest statement yet of British purposes. The British Government (but not the entire British public) was willing to pay high for a new Big Two-the U.S. and Britain. Furthermore, the British Government was willing, even anxious, to be the junior partner in the alliance...
Then Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin hulked to his feet. Said he: "I wish there were similar parliaments . . . and free and unfettered discussion of this problem in other countries in Europe. . . . There are two kinds of hunger in Europe today. One is physical. . . . But I sometimes think that the awful blackout over Europe is creating a great spiritual hunger...
Price of Stupidity. Bevin for the first time openly regretted that Germany had been split into occupation zones, in effect admitted that the system was not working: "It might be said that we were wrong to develop zones. . . . Probably . . . it would have been better if we had not done it." He reported that some 15 million German "displaced persons" were being chivied back & forth across Europe; that some ten million Frenchmen, Italians and others were also waiting to go home. Telling of how he watched the misery-laden procession of refugees in Berlin, he said: "I felt, my God, that...
This generous outburst, a credit to British decency, swept Bevin and others of like mind into one historical error. When Bevin said of the Sudeten Germans and the Czechs that they "had lived together in perfect harmony until Hitler's stooges and agents broke up their democratic state," he was falling back on the old, dubious view that Hitler's' New Order had been the work of only a few Nazi gangsters. The 3,000,000 Sudeten Germans, now joining Europe's miserable displaced millions, had risen in a mass to betray the Czechs...