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Churchill begged Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin to press for a Germany able to defend itself. But Bevin replied that he could not urge such a policy on his French allies. Bevin, sick and cautious, left for Strasbourg in no mood for grand designs...
During the visit, France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman had a 70-minute session with Britain's Ernest Bevin. They did not reach or seek specific agreements, merely exchanged views on many subjects of interest to both countries; the diplomats call this a tour d'horizon. But the most important discussions centered on European integration, where, according to the French, the British have been dragging their feet. Bevin explained Britain's position-particularly on the U.S.-backed European payments scheme: 1) the United Kingdom's dollar reserves are so low that she cannot commit herself...
...other cabinet moves, however, which might huct Attlee more than they helped. The first was the transfer of bright young (40) Hector McNeil from Minister of State in the Foreign Office to Secretary of State for Scotland. The effect of this was to deprive ailing Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin of his ablest aide. The other shuffle of doubtful value was the appointment of former Food Minister John Strachey to the post of Secretary of State for War (see below...
Labor's leaders were resentful at the injection of a world question into a campaign that had been comfortably domestic. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin brushed off Churchill's proposal as a political "stunt." Prime Minister Clement Attlee faced old Winston's challenge: "We are ready and eager to discuss with Russia, the United States, Canada and all other nations ways and means of dealing with this menace...
...Churchill's recent proposal for top-level talks between the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union before a hydrogen-bomb race begins, has tended to obscure his general agreement with the "tough" foreign policy followed by Mr. Bevin and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The proposal was surprising, since the Russians have continually labelled Mr. Churchill as a "warmonger." Mr. Bevin has called the whole idea campaign "stunt...