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...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...
...issue was Hong Kong, Britain's Chinese crown colony. Did Britain mean to keep it or give it up? First socialist Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin answered bluntly: "We have taken steps to receive the surrender of the Japanese forces in Hong Kong." Then Prime Minister Clement Attlee made the matter crystal-clear: "Plans for re-establishing British administration in the colony are fully prepared...
Surprise & Understanding. The Hong Kong episode came before the dust had settled from Foreign Secretary Bevin's first forthright venture into the field of foreign policy (TIME, Aug. 27). His denunciation of Soviet-backed Balkan Governments and refusal to countenance intervention in Spain shocked left-wingers who looked for sweeping changes. Editorialized the Communist Daily Worker: "This is not yet the lead which millions of service and home voters . . . are waiting for." More sober and more traditional was the sizing-up of the Manchester Guardian: "British foreign policy, as Mr. Bevin expounded it, is not a matter of party...
...Ernest Bevin's speech had served two important purposes. To the world it had underlined a fact often overlooked abroad: there is a continuity in British foreign relations that overrides party affiliations. To the Britons who were disappointed, it underlined a fact often overlooked: the general election was fought over domestic not foreign policies. Controversial decisions of the Churchill Government (e.g., armed intervention in Greece) were coalition decisions in which Labor Ministers concurred. With minor modifications, Labor alone proposed to carry on where Labor-in-coalition had left...
...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...