Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Foreign Secretary Bevin pledged to seek a customs union of Western European states...
...Zionist movement has never been a communistic one. In the last elections to the Jewish National Council in Palestine the Communists managed to elect one delegate out of 600. The strongest political party in Palestine--Mapai--is a labor party, but so is Mr. Bevin's. The Soviet attitude towards Zionism has always been hostile. After the revolution Zionism as a political movement in the Soviet Union was destroyed root and branch. Hebrew is a banned language in Russia. Zionist leaders were imprisoned when the Russians took over Poland during the war. The Kremlin has consistently denounced Zionism, ironically enough...
Though it was improbable that Britain could soon lead the way to the complete union that Dulles proposed, Bevin's announcement was a long first step in the right direction. It was bound to influence those who felt, like Dulles, that it was high time for Europe to make a start toward economic unity, at least. It was also the best possible answer to the harshest attack yet made...
...Hoover had missed the whole point and spirit of ERP, had sadly confused long-term recovery with short-term relief. But his words had provided a new rallying point for congressional recalcitrants. The best way to cut the ground from under them again was just such a proposition as Bevin had made: a long-range goal of cooperative selfhelp, which depended on assurance of long-range U.S. support...
...first, all was as friendly as Scheherazade's smile. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin hailed Britain'snew 20-year alliance with Iraq as the start of an era "regularizing and expressing the friendship between this country and the Arabic world." The treaty with Iraq confirmed Britain's right to-keep troops in Iraq, train and arm the Iraqi army, maintain airbases. Iraq's Regent Abdul Illah replied to a congratulatory message from Bevin: "I recall with appreciation your precious efforts that have led to this happy result...