Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernie Explodes. One day last week, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas called on Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; what he had to say was brutally simple. President Harry Truman had recognized the State of Israel (that neither George Marshall nor Lew Douglas himself was particularly happy about their boss's sudden step was another matter). Now the U.S. expected from Britain, if not Israel's recognition, at least a stoppage of aid to the Arabs. Lew Douglas added that, unless the British complied, Marshall Plan allocations to Britain might run into trouble in Congress...
...Ernie Bevin exploded. He said in effect that he was sick & tired of U.S. pressure; Britain was treaty-bound to help Arab states, and good relations with the Moslem Middle East were as vital for U.S. security as they were for Britain's. But when Bevin calmed down he sent new instructions to Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan at Lake Success: London would stop arms shipments to Arab states, provided the Security Council called for a general arms embargo which would prevent other nations, as well, from shipping arms and men to Palestine. The British also called...
Piecemeal Approach. "Western Union" was one of the commonest phrases for the unity which men were trying for in 1948. The phrase was Ernie Bevin's. He had floated it out on the air in January, without ever quite defining it. A fortnight ago at a private gathering, somebody asked Bevin just what he had meant. He replied passionately and well for 25 minutes, leaving his hearers under the double impression that he 1) believed in it with all his heart, and 2) did not know what "it" was. But one thing was clear enough: some kinds of unification...
Clement Attlee and Ernie Bevin dissociated themselves from this dog-in-the-manger attitude-but they had both been angry when France (which shed its Socialist Premier for a Popular Republican) devalued its currency and permitted free trade in the franc. For one reason, it violated British Socialists' notions of a properly managed currency, and it hurt them worse to discover that it did not seem to hurt France...
Profitable Paradox. In 1929, T.U.C.'s Ernie Bevin swung the deal that made the Herald the profitable paradox it is today. Bevin sold a 51% interest to Odhams' Press, run by a business wizard named Julius Salter Elias (later Lord Southwood). Elias was willing to let Labor tell him how to sell Socialism, as long as he could tell Labor how to sell papers...