Word: bevinism
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Britain's balky, bumbling Foreign Secretary Bevin had been urged by the U.S. to grant recognition before the Israeli elections last week, in order to encourage the Israeli moderates against the extremists. But Bevin stubbornly refused to be hustled. As it turned out, the Israeli moderates did well anyway...
...Bevin really want agreement? It was hard to tell from his hesitation in the days preceding recognition of Israel by Britain. Winston Churchill, fresh and saucy after a vacation on the French Riviera, raked him with merciless verbal talons. Churchill spoke of "folly, fatuity and futility . . . the quintessence of maladresse" and compared Bevin to a cuttlefish which retires "under a cloud of inky water and vapor . . . to some obscure retreat...
Lancashire v. Lyon. What had happened to Western Union? Last year, Winston Churchill had grandly advocated the "grand design." All that Europe heard from Britain on the subject now was what one U.S. newsman called "the dull plop-plop" of Ernie Bevin's speeches, urging step-by-step progress. A British M.P. last week explained: "The French plan is an effort to pass on to some kind of European government the problems which the French government has so much trouble solving. Some call it 'escapism.' I prefer to call it the search for a short...
...Bevin v. Charlemagne. The French are rather tired of Britain's patent virtue and self-righteousness. Many Frenchmen accuse the British of playing their old game -trying to interfere, without being responsibly involved, in the Continent's destiny. Thinking Frenchmen understand Britain's hesitations. They realize that it is asking a lot of Britain to tie her recovering economy to France's, and to rate the defense of Strasbourg as important as the defense of Dover. Still, they believe that, in order to achieve European union, the British must take military and economic risks, i.e., gamble...
...because Bramuglia had been unable to get the U.N. to consider seriously her Declaration of Rights of Old Age. Worst of all, in sharing the Paris dinner table-and the headlines -with U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Bramuglia had reached the top of the ladder. In Argentina there is room for only one person (and wife) on the top rung...