Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes had been Secretary of State just two months. There were some who still felt a little anxious about the U.S. being represented-and among all those experienced foreigners-by such a comparative neophyte. (Actually, only Molotov has had more experience; the Messrs. Bevin, Bidault and Wrang Shi-chieh are almost equally new to their tasks.) Although he had guided foreign policy bills through the Senate for F.D.R., Jimmy Byrnes's political life had largely been spent on domestic affairs. He had gone to Europe a dozen or so times, mostly for pleasure...
Along Russia's borders from Poland to Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. position evoked response. Even Czechoslovakia's Russophile Fierlinger discussed earnestly with Ernest Bevin concrete plans to divert some of his country's almost exclusively Russian trade down the Elbe toward Britain...
...Government's dampening answer to the "demob" cry came from pale-eyed, mild-mannered Minister of Labor George Isaacs. The Government, he said, would stick to a modified version of the plan drafted by his potent predecessor, Ernest Bevin, six months ago: 1,110,000 men would be released this year, "specialist workers" could go at once. The rest would have to wait...
...socialist Swedish and British Governments-and soon in the Norwegian and Danish-meet and draw up a program together?" By that time Danish Foreign Minister John Christmas Moeller and Norwegian Foreign Minister Trygve Lie were already in London, talking trade and credits with British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin...
...London man in the street seemed pleased with "Ernie's" showing-the Empire was as safe in his hands as in Anthony Eden's. In Parliament the majority verdict was about the same. Remarked Tory Oliver Stanley as burly Ernest Bevin sat down: "My, hasn't Anthony put on a lot of weight lately...