Word: bevinism
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...British embassy managed a stag dinner for Ernie Bevin with Secretary Acheson and Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg. Acheson also dined at the French embassy, but other hosts had to be content with lesser functionaries such as Under Secretary Webb (the Italian embassy) and Counselor "Chip" Bohlen (The Netherlands). The Scandinavians entertained each other...
...wide spaces first, to plead the case for Italian trusteeship of her former African colonies. The Netherlands' Dr. Dirk U. Stikker talked to Secretary Acheson for two hours, and was pressed to come to terms with Indonesia's republicans. Britain's Foreign Secretary, heavy-footed Ernest Bevin, and France's wispy Robert Schuman met with Acheson and agreed with unexpected rapidity that a Western German government must be set up promptly, a decision that had been stalled for months in lower-level talks...
Great Step. Laborite Bevin also dropped in at the National Press Club and won reporters' applause by his simple, rough-hewn ways/and his defense of the pact. Said Bevin: "To would-be aggressors, it says: 'Think twice-think thrice' ... I believe as the years go on it will be said of this week in Washington: 'There, in that pact, humanity took its great step to enthrone the great freedoms of the world...
...Bevin was justified in calling attention to the achievement of the past two years, but the picture he drew was both exaggerated and incomplete. In Germany the Western nations had blocked open Communist thrusts, but they had not even begun to build a firm structure to withstand future Communist efforts (see FOREIGN NEWS). Progress in Italy and France had been marked; but neither nation was out of the woods, politically or economically...
...State Department quietly prepared a momentous conference. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman prepared for a meeting in Washington next week to discuss Western policy in Germany...