Word: bevinism
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...without rancor they discussed a difficult problem: was it right to label a wine as a "Bordeaux," even if it had been diluted with inferior Algerian grapes? The cheerful worriers were delegates to an international wine convention which met in the back rooms of the Palace. When Ernie Bevin was told about their presence, he sighed wistfully: "I bet they got away to dinner at a respectable hour...
That night, Bevin and his colleagues (in the front rooms) did not get away for dinner. Throughout the last weary hours of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference, Bevin and Byrnes had tried to erect the framework of an Austrian peace treaty. Molotov stymied them with a typical Soviet roadblock: he would not discuss the matter before 437,000 supposedly fascist aliens in western Austria had been expelled...
Finally, at 9:15, Ernie Bevin's small brown eyes wearily encompassed the gilded room, of which everyone was heartily sick by now. As last-day chairman of the conference, he asked: "Any more items?" Bidault waved his hands in a negative gesture. Molotov gazed stonily through the window at the dusk settling over the Luxembourg Gardens. Byrnes shook his head and absently kept penciling a pattern of diminishing circles on a loose sheet of paper. "All right," said Bevin at 9:17. "We meet again at the Peace Conference...
...economic reconstruction and the centralized government called for in Molotov's plan be started immediately by 1) lifting of zonal boundaries, 2) establishment of a central administration to which even the French had now agreed. But Molotov, despite his grand promises, refused. His stand forced Byrnes and Bevin to announce that the U.S. and British zones would merge. This should complete Germany's long-emerging division into an Eastern and a Western Reich...
...arguments for keeping Trieste out of Yugoslav hands were good ones, and Secretary Byrnes and Foreign Secretary Bevin had made them. For the sake of getting on with the peace, they had compromised with Molotov on a French proposal to internationalize the city (which has a preponderantly Italian population, but is economically an outlet for Central Europe and the Balkans). Italian nationalist extremists, who cheered the 1940 attack on France with the land-greedy slogan "Corsica, Nice, Savoy," would scarcely improve their claims to Trieste by demonstrations against the West...