Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, meeting in London, that "prodigious inventions in the field of destruction have given an air of unreality to the whole organization. . . ." But he deplored the view "that we must either immediately constitute a superstate or the whole world will blow...
Scowls & Love. Twelve minutes after Churchill began speaking, Ernest Bevin shuffled in. Churchill stopped, cast a radiant smile across the aisle. Said he: "I am very glad to see the new Foreign Secretary sitting on the front bench opposite. I would like to say with what gratification I learned that the right honorable gentleman had taken on this high office." Bevin scowled. Few can pay compliments so gracefully as Churchill; few can receive them as gracelessly as Bevin. Later, when Labor members teased Bevin about his fondness for Churchill, he growled: "But I love him. I love...
...Parliament, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin directly supported the U.S. stand on Bulgaria (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), indirectly answered Winston Churchill (see above...
...Said Bevin: "The governments set up in Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary do not represent the views of the majority of the people" (all three countries are Russian-dominated). "The impression we get from recent developments is that one kind of totalitarianism is being replaced by another. That is not what we understand by that very much overworked word Democracy...
...Labor Government, said Bevin, would welcome a change of government in Spain, but would take no steps "to permit or encourage civil war in that country...