Word: bevinism
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That did not mean that the U.S.'s Acheson, Britain's Bevin or France's Schuman were overlooking Asia, where men were paying with their lives for past blunders -notably the blunders of the U.S. Yet there was no denying that the final issues between East and West were most likely to be resolved where East meets West, in Europe's industrial heartland...
...French hamstring action on Germany as they had in the past. All that the U.S. had to say was that it would not and could not undertake to defend France so long as Germany was defenseless. This week, at long last, Acheson was prepared to be firm. Ernest Bevin was ready to back him. To both of them, the most important item before the Foreign Ministers was how, when and with what Germany would be strengthened to become the bastion of a free Europe...
...York next week, Acheson will face an emergency meeting of the West's Big Three foreign ministers; he wanted tangible evidence to show the others that the U.S. intended to defend, not merely liberate, Western Europe in case of war. He needed something to spur Britain's Bevin and France's Schuman (see FOREIGN NEWS) into getting busy too. This is what Acheson proposed...
...postwar international planning. He played a key advisory role at Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, San Francisco, did much of the British spadework for U.N. and the North Atlantic pact. Since 1948, as Deputy Under Secretary of State, he has been the trusted (and devoted) assistant to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin...
...Equality. In the discussions next month between Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Secretary of State Dean Acheson in Washington the U.S. will continue to reject the British viewpoint. But the U.S. itself, unless it changes its own line again, will defend a position that is also based on inconsistency. The U.S. Government, though it is pledged to the defense of Formosa, is still unwilling to work in anything like partnership with the Nationalist government on Formosa, and never misses a chance to make the point clear, even though an assault by the Reds would make partnership an absolute necessity. Furthermore...