Word: bevinism
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...removal-for reparations-of industrial plants in Western Germany. Eastbound, he rode on the presidential plane with Secretary of State Marshall. ("It was," said Hoffman, "the highest-level hitchhike in history.") Next day he conferred with sprightly Foreign Minister Schuman in Paris; the next, with tired, grumpy Foreign Minister Bevin in London; and a day and a half later, he was back in Washington, holding a press conference. He was natty in a dark blue suit but he needed a shave...
...Truman's surprise and dismay, Marshall flatly opposed it. The foreign ministers of the U.S., Britain and France had just finished eight weeks of fruitless talks with Stalin and Molotov. Marshall, at that very moment, was doing his best to reassure Britain's Bevin and France's Schuman of the consistency of U.S. diplomacy. The U.S., for example, had said it would not negotiate with Russia as long as she maintained the Berlin blockade. An announcement such as Mr. Truman planned would certainly shake British and French confidence in the U.S. The move would also look...
George Marshall asked Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman how they felt about letting Franco into U.N. Both were opposed. Marshall agreed that the U.S. would not support the Latin American move for Spain's U.N. membership. The U.S., however, would back repeal of the 1946 resolution-if someone else proposed it. It would also back Spain for membership in U.N.'s non-political affiliates, such as the International Telecommunications Union...
...Said Bevin: "If the black fury, the incalculable disaster of atomic war, should fall upon us, one power, by refusing its cooperation in the control and development of those great new forces . . . will alone be responsible for the evils which may be visited upon mankind . . ." Swiveling his great bulk toward Vishinsky, Bevin cried: "If the Soviet representative had any feeling for the simple people of Europe or the world, if he were animated by anything but out-of-date, backward, unscientific doctrine, he would be the first to applaud the great, unselfish contribution of the United States to world recovery...
...Paris, the nations listened to the earnest, urgent words of Count Folke Bernadotte. The U.N. General-Assembly considered his proposals for a Palestine settlement which he had completed just before his death. Both George Marshall and Ernie Bevin backed the plan; it seemed certain that the Assembly would adopt it. Both Jews and Arabs objected, but they sounded more moderate than usual...