Word: bevinism
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Britain's team of Cripps & Bevin, sick men from a sick nation, had looked glum as they left for the U.S. The advance party of British experts, already on the scene, was cautiously tiptoeing around any controversy that might re-ignite any U.S. tempers. For their part, the U.S. planners were taking no chances that they might be accused of telling Britain how to run its own affairs. The uproar of angry criticism in the U.S. and British press had all but died away...
...London theater last week a quartet of actors, togged out as Prime Minister Clement Attlee with his Ministers Sir Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison, sang a doleful parody of a tune from Oklahoma...
...real life, boarding the Mauretania en route to the Washington conference on the British dollar crisis, Ministers Bevin and Cripps tried to be less doleful. They linked arms and beamed for cameramen. Bevin remarked that they were on "one of the most important missions in history." Someone yelled from the dockside, "Bring us back some dollars!" Bevin said: "I would ask the public not to expect to find the solution in a moment." Sir Stafford smiled toothily at his colleague's statement. "Good," he applauded. "Well done...
...thing, their personal health was not good. Just back from a Swiss resort where he had been treated for a digestive ailment, Cripps took austere vegetarian meals at a small table in the ship's dining room. As a fellow sufferer under doctor's orders, Bevin dieted in his cabin-nothing but boiled fish, poultry, milk puddings, custards. Between meals they wrestled together with the bigger problem of Britain's economic health...
Until Cripps and Bevin arrived, Washington could not be sure of the British position. But it was known that the British were veering toward a practical, circumspect approach. They were inclined to ask for only a little now in the way of special help from the U.S., in the hope of more later. Specifically, they would probably propose a larger British slice of the ECA pie for Europe, which OEEC is currently fighting over (see below); a freer hand in spending their ECA allotment; a cut in U.S. tariff duties on British goods, an easing of U.S. customs red tape...