Word: bevinism
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After the Foreign Ministers' deadlock on Trieste, Viacheslav Molotov gave a party for 600 at the palatial Soviet Embassy with a very lush, very Russian buffet. After the deadlock on the Italian colonies, Ernest Bevin did the honors for 800 at the even more palatial British Embassy, with a much more austere buffet. Cinderella-like, Bidault, Byrnes and Molotov left on the stroke of midnight; no sooner had they gone than Bevin cracked his party's glaze of tension by foxtrotting with Lady Diana Duff Cooper...
...peace conference on June 15, with an acknowledgment that the Big Four had failed to agree. He sat back, winked at Arthur Vandenberg, awaited reactions. For five long minutes-"it seemed like 30," said one witness-nobody spoke. Then Bidault said quietly that this seemed like a good idea. Bevin nodded thoughtfully.* Molotov whispered into the ear of Interpreter Vladimir Pavlov, who announced that Russia would like to think it over...
...York Times story about aspeech of Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin at Paris was the statement: "It must always be kept in mind that Mr. Bevin . . . is talking not only for Great Britain but for the whole British Commonwealth." This apparently innocuous statement was not taken that way by Canadians...
...House of Commons at Ottawa, Maxime Raymond of the nationalistic Bloc Populaire rose to ask Prime Minister Mackenzie King a question: Is it correct that Mr. Bevin spoke for the whole Commonwealth? Did Mr. Bevin speak for Canada...
...Prime Minister answered the way that Maxim Raymond, and every other M.P., knew he would. Said he crisply: "My understanding is that [Mr. Bevin] is representing the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom only." Members on both sides of the House thumped their desks in approval...