Word: bevinism
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...your senior thesis at Princeton, you wrote that Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was hobbled by relying too heavily on permanent advisers. Is that a problem for you at the State Department...
...When the Marshall proposals were announced," said Ernie Bevin in Britain last week, "I grabbed them with both hands...
...three hours last week Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the British Embassy gardens in Paris, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal, adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more happy talk...
...Bevin flew back to London two days later and [made] a memorable speech in the House of Commons. Pounding a dispatch box with his heavy hands, Bevin said: "The reply of the Soviet Government is awaited . . . [but] I shall not be a party to holding up the economic recovery of Europe by the finesse of procedure." The immediate problems of Europe were "food, coal, transport, houses, opportunities for a decent life...
...fact, it did so-not in the U.S., although it soon got behind the idea, but in Europe, where the response was instant. That same night, Britain's Foreign Secretary Bevin began arranging the conferences in which Europe's nations would assess their needs as a region and go to the U.S. with a program in hand. As Marshall intended, all of Europe-Russia included-was invited to take part. But Russia, after the first conference, refused-and declared war on the plan as another example of U.S. efforts to enslave Europe. Finally 16 nations joined in developing...