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Scrapping. The Security Council meets in Church House just behind Westminster Abbey. There the test came last week when Britain's Ernie Bevin rose ponderously from his se.at near Vishinsky. Bevin, looking straight ahead, said: "I think it would be a great mistake if any country could not have its complaint heard." Everyone in the room snapped to attention. Vishinsky was a picture of pallid, intense concern. Bevin warmed up throatily on Greece (which Russia had brought up to counteract talk about Iran). Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Undersecretary in the Foreign Office, leaned forward and tried in vain...
Despite Vishinsky's efforts, Bevin won and Iran remained on the Council agenda. But London thought Vishinsky might win his case indirectly. The Iranian Majlis (Parliament) had chosen a new Premier, 65-year-old Ahmed Qavam, by a vote of 52-to-51. In spite (or because) of his large holdings in Azerbaijan, Qavam is Iran's most pro-Soviet politician. At any time he might withdraw the Iranian Appeal...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told a tense House of Commons last week that terror had become an instrument of national policy in the new Poland. Many members of Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party who opposed the Communist-dominated Warsaw Government had been murdered. "Circumstances in many cases appear to point to the complicity of the Polish Security Police. ... I regard it as imperative that the Polish Provisional Government should put an immediate stop to these crimes in order that free and unfettered elections may be held as soon as possible, in accordance with...
Last week stout Ernie Bevin, His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, walked ponderously up to the UNO rostrum and made a limited but specific speech that started a new deal for dependencies...
...delegates are not afraid to applaud their favorites, and Bevin is one of them. There were cheers when he said Britain was ready to put her mandates of Tanganyika, Togoland and the Cameroons under UNO trusteeship. There were still longer cheers, led by the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, when he promised early independence to Trans-Jordan, whose Indiana-sized expanse includes mud, lifeless desert and the Dead Sea. The Emir Abdullah was at once invited to London to implement the deal...