Word: bevinism
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Nothing that passed, nothing that was said at the last, "disastrous" Council of Foreign Ministers in London last year equaled in frank ferocity the exchanges in the Security Council between Messrs. Vishinsky and Bevin. When the bitter anger of the Foreign Ministers' meeting had seeped out to the world, men's hope for themselves and for UNO all but vanished. But, at these public meetings, when Ernest Bevin turned upon the pallid Russian and Vishinsky turned upon the West's great defender, the effect was good, healthy and hopeful...
Rumpled Cordiality. The cards were put face up. Curtly but calmly Vishinsky spoke of "the new outbreak of Fascist terror" in Greece and the use of British troops there as "a danger to peace and security." As mild in manner, Bevin was even rougher in words. In Greece, he said, Britain "could have done as was done in Rumania by Mr. Vishinsky-put in a minority government. . . . The danger to the peace of the world has been the incessant propaganda from Moscow against the British Commonwealth and the incessant utilization of the Communist Parties in every country in the world...
...couple of hours after these outbursts, Bevin went to a party at the Soviet Embassy. Jolly as a rumpled, just-fed bear, he backslapped Vishinsky and horsed him around for the photographers. Vishinsky loved it; never was there a more eloquent manifestation of that everpresent, always-pathetic Russian longing to "belong." A little later Bevin came upon Vishinsky and Iranian Ambassador Seyed Hassan Tagizadeh in close, genial conversation. Bevin chortled: "That's right, boys, make peace now." Said Vishinsky, smiling: "We'll make such a good peace that you'll bring it up at the Security Council...
...peace was not to be made at a party. This week they came back to the Council forge to hammer out understanding. Vishinsky called Bevin's reference to Communist propaganda "a cold breath of the unhappy past." Bevin used the word "lie." Finally Russia offered to drop her demand for Council action if Britain would withdraw her troops from Greece as soon as possible...
Pending the elections, a bitter, bloody political struggle would rage on inside Poland. Bevin and Modzelewski had lifted only a corner of the curtain of obscurity...