Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoffman had urgently warned Western Europe that it must take steps to integrate its separate economies (TIME, Nov. 7). Barely had Hoffman returned to the U.S., when Secretary of State Dean Acheson took off for Paris. For two days this week he would confer with Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman on various problems of Western policy, including dismantling of German industries. But Washington let it be known that the matter of Western European unity was uppermost in the Secretary's mind...
Spunky Little Man. Once a rather dowdy (though brilliant) history professor, Georges Bidault suddenly blossomed out after liberation as a dapper diplomat and statesman. Britain's Ernest Bevin had once patronizingly called him "this dear little man," but Bidault had been almost the only one in Charles de Gaulle's postliberation entourage with spunk enough to argue against the stiff-backed general. Son of a devoutly Catholic, well-to-do insurance broker, Georges Bidault had sided with the Spanish Loyalists, denounced Munich and become a top executive in the French underground. Before he married in 1945, he seemed...
...conference room overlooking the back garden at No. 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Attlee conferred endlessly with his cabinet. Everyone thought the other fellow's expenses could be cut, but did not see how his own department could struggle along on any less. Foreign Minister Bevin wanted to cut social services, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan insisted that his housing and health plans were "sacrosanct." Attlee tried to mollify everybody. He was still keeping strict secrecy when he took the plan to Buckingham Palace for the King's approval...
...assume they are enjoying themselves, and why interfere?" commented Britain's Ernie Bevin, picketed by the American-Irish Minute Men of 1949 on the dock in Manhattan as he sailed for home. "I have a sort of fascination about pickets. I used to organize so many of them myself. They're all good lads, I expect...
...matter with Britain that had not been handed on by Tory predecessors, or aggravated by Tory criticism during the postwar period. When he finished he got a deafening ovation from Laborites. Deputy Premier Herbert Morrison's smile, however, was wan and sickly. With Attlee tired, Cripps and Ernie Bevin ailing, Morrison and Nye Bevan are the chief rivals for Labor leadership. Bevan's admirers thought his slambang speech had moved him several notches nearer to No. 10 Downing Street...