Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt was asked if she was discouraged by the failure of the London conference. Her reply: "No. I don't think it surprising that men who knew each other so little as they did could not arrive at the answers to all the questions they considered. Mr. Bevin and Mr. Byrnes were entirely new, and we should have known from his background that Mr. Bevin would be difficult. Mr. Byrnes was put in the position of mediator and he was not prepared...
...moment, he bided his time so stolidly that impatient young Tories took umbrage, growled that Winston was ignoring them as usual. Clement Attlee earnestly answered Members' questions. Ponderous Ernie Bevin recounted what was already an old story, the meeting of the Big Five Foreign Ministers. Churchill, who well knew the exasperations of a session with Molotov, conceded that Bevin had given a "clear, temperate and able statement . . . made upon the disappointing event...
...Knew As Much . . ." In 1929, when the Laborite Daily Herald was reorganized, Ernest Bevin picked Francis Williams for his City (i.e., financial) Editor. Says Williams: "I have always felt that a specialist journalist should know as much as, say, the bankers and stockbrokers. . . or whatever department of journalism he is working in. . . . I put myself in a position in which I knew as much as they did, if not a bit more...
Britain's Bevin had the same story. Moscow's Izvestia barked that these explanations were "not in accordance with reality," added that all who disagreed with Molotov refused "to recognize the real situation." The same old quarrels about meanings were on again...
...dependence on the Arabs in the Middle and Near East. Observed the London Times: "[This is] a conflict not of right with wrong, but of right with right." Prodded by President Truman's blunt request for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin conferred with Reuven Zaslani, chief of the Jewish Agency, and with the new Arab League's Secretary-General Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey. Afterward, both breathed fire. Said Zaslani: in the event of bloodshed, "the Jews in Palestine will regard it as their fight." Said Azzam Bey: "The time...