Word: bevinism
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State Dinner. At first, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin brushed off Wyatt's demand with the stubborn statement: "We entered into a contract for the tanks and the Egyptians paid for them. I do not like breaking contracts too easily." By clever parliamentary maneuvering, Wyatt and a few other discontented Labor M.P.s arranged that the arms-for-Egypt issue should be debated at a night meeting of the House which Bevin could not attend. (Together with Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, Bevin was off to a state dinner at Buckingham Palace in honor of Queen Juliana of The Netherlands...
...Hardie's son-in-law Emrys Hughes, who bitterly cried: "They have made a hell upon earth in Korea and they call it collective security." Other speakers acknowledged the old pacifist tradition, but the party's new attitude to war was clearly stated by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Fresh from the New York Foreign Ministers' conference, Bevin urged collective security and alignment with...
...Bevin began his speech in the quavering tones of a sick man. He paused to swallow a pill. Suddenly he cried: "No one here would stand more insults, more abuse, than I have from Molotov and Vishinsky." The conference roared its understanding. Bevin raised his hand high and yelled: "I do not believe the United States will ever be aggressors . . . I want to nail that lie. It is sent out by Russia to try to blind the people of the world, to throw mud . . ." The conference cheered...
...repeatedly declared that Korea must be united. If Korea is treated as a single nation, said Britain's Ernest Bevin, "the 38th parallel automatically disappears...
...spirit surrounding this agreement, however, was anything but the sense of unity and hurry that the situation demanded. It was noted that ailing Ernest Bevin had a hard time keeping awake at some meetings. Unless somebody or something prodded the West out of its present mood, the defense of Europe would snooze along through another fateful year-and it might be Free Europe's last...