Word: bevinism
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Last week in Brussels, Ernest Bevin's dream of Western Union was taking on some hard outlines of reality. Delegates to a five-nation meeting (Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg) moved rapidly toward a defensive alliance against Russia. By mid-March, the delegates' work would be presented to their Foreign Ministers who were expected to sign an "umbrella treaty," to keep Western Europe out of the Red rain. The Czech crisis had speeded up the fusion of Europe's democratic forces...
...failure was not so much in policy as in performance. Except for a few notable exceptions, U.S. leadership in world affairs had been unimaginative and uncertain. Time & again the U.S. had failed to grasp its opportunities. When Britain's Ernest Bevin suggested a union of Britain and Western Europe, the U.S. had cheered loudly, then sidestepped. The union idea died on the vine. In the U.N., around the anterooms and lounges, the most frequently heard complaint from delegates who looked to the U.S. for leadership was: "We would like to follow you but we don't know where...
...Generally speaking, a newspaper or radio reporter (leaving aside columnists and commentators) is concerned with reporting the single event. When Ernest Bevin proposed a Western European Union, the first and main job of the daily correspondents was to report what he said as quickly and accurately as possible. We had three days. We could assume that TIME'S editors knew what Bevin had said; our main job was to tell them what we and others thought it meant, what he did not say, etc. We had to supply clear, unbroken quotes of his key remarks. The whole...
...other words, Bevin's speech and the debate it precipitated could be inclusively reported only by reflecting a whole year's events and trends-a job that the daily press, by & large, does not undertake, and which TIME must undertake, whether it finally succeeds...
...Benelux countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg), they replied that such a basis was "inadequate." Spaak and his neighbors wanted mutual aid that would start "automatically" in case of hostilities with Germany "or a state connected directly or indirectly with Germany's action." Toward better definition of the Bevin Gesture, they suggested a "regional organization" for Western Europe, within the framework of U.N., on the lines of the American hemisphere defense system...