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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...
Before the Council of Foreign Ministers met in London, Britain's Ernest Bevin told a friend: "If Molotov bangs his fist on the table and yells at me, I will bang my fist and yell right back at him." This childishness, not to be confused with toughness, befitted neither the great tradition of British diplomacy nor the dire necessities...
Molotov's maneuver sorely displeased Jimmy Byrnes. Said he: such a proposal was not on the Foreign Ministers' agenda, and therefore he was not prepared to discuss it. Thoroughly angered at Molotov on other points, Britain's Bevin at first sided with Byrnes. But the Dominions, headed by Australia's bellicose Herbert Evatt, immediately subjected Bevin to such pressure that Byrnes found himself standing alone against everybody else...
Journey to the West. For him, for Greece and for the western world, it had been an interesting trip. The British had given him his first journey by air. In London he had talked with Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, the U.S.'s Jimmy Byrnes, and his exiled sovereign, George II. Thanks to the hostility of Viacheslav Molotov, the bearded statesman of Athens had been excluded from the sessions of the Council of Foreign Ministers (see INTERNATIONAL). But he had made his presence felt in London; he had dramatized the pivotal position of his country in the new geopolitics...