Word: bevinism
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...Western powers, it was, oddly enough, Britain, not the U.S., which took the lead in a more constructive approach to colonial questions. Last week Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin lent new importance to the Anglo-Egyptian negotiations by announcing that he would go in person to Cairo to participate in revision of the basic treaty between the two countries. Bevin's promise might stave off a possible Egyptian move to call U.N.'s attention to the presence of British troops in Egypt...
...patient. Once during U.N.'s London meeting, Bevin and Vishinsky were discussing Greece in card-table metaphors. Said Vishinsky: "No etot tuz ne nasto yashchi." The patient interpreter's first try: "But this ace is a funny one." Vishinsky did not like it. The interpreter tried again: "This ace is not a genuine one." But Vishinsky was not satisfied until the sentence swelled to: "The ace which Mr. Bevin pulls out of the deck of cards is not an absolutely normal...
...London, at a stormy meeting of 300 Labor M.P.s, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin won a resounding victory over pro-Communist critics. His foreign policy was endorsed by a vote of 260-to-6, with 34 abstentions. In a belligerent statement...
Rarely had a treaty been so quickly proposed, prepared and signed. At UNO's London meeting, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had announced Britain's intention to give up its League of Nations mandate for Trans-Jordan. The following week King George invited Emir Abdullah to London. Within a month the negotiations had been completed. They left Trans-Jordan still tied to Britain by a fairly strong military and economic rope. Trans-Jordan was to provide facilities for the training and movement of British troops, and her communications were to be developed with British money and in consultation with...
...more Miss Frankie Miller worried. Finally she sat down and wrote Britain's Foreign Minister a letter about it. Instead of mailing the letter, she took it to the New York Times, paid $693 to have it printed last week as an ad. Said Frankie Miller to Ernie Bevin: "Humbly I beg your Excellency to have the [liberation] of South Tyrol brought before the UNO. ... I also challenge the zone occupation of Austria...