Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draft treaties, noting areas of agreement, shelving points of disagreement. Mr. Byrnes made a handsome announcement: U.S. occupation authorities in Germany and Austria would return the U.S.-impounded Danubian shipping that Yugoslavia and other Danube countries had long and loudly been clamoring for.* And then, as Messrs. Byrnes and Bevin tackled Mr. Molotov (with French Deputy Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville modestly mediating) on the Italian treaty, Mr. Molotov began to make handsome concessions...
...finally agreed that the governor should govern in concert with the assembly; that the governor should control the police in time of "emergency"; that the governor should decide when an emergency existed. In ordinary times, the Russian insisted, the police should be controlled by the assembly. Messrs. Byrnes and Bevin appreciated these concessions, but they were troubled by the idea of divided police allegiance. Under what conditions could the governor hire & fire the police chief? Mr. Molotov said that the police matter could be settled more quickly if the Anglo-U.S. bargainers would set a time limit for troop...
When the King and his coach had gone, the House of Commons got down to what was really on its mind: the "revolt" [strictly verbal] of Labor backbenchers, led by Richard Grossman and Tom Driberg, who think Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's policy too anti-Russian. Said Driberg: "I must warn the Foreign Secretary that . . . the people of this country will certainly not follow him to war now or in five years' time against Soviet Russia in partnership with the barbaric thugs of Detroit or the narrow imperialists of Washington or Wall Street...
...wordy wrangle, U. S. Secretary of State Byrnes and British Foreign Secretary Bevin held out against this move. They, along with Deputy Minister Couve de Murville of France, held that if the governor was given responsibility for maintaining order, he should also be given the power...
...Dusk. That was the background of the meeting of Byrnes, Molotov, Bevin and France's Couve de Murville amid the yellow chairs and croton plants in the apartment lent to the Ministers by the Waldorf's fastidious board chairman, Lucius M. Boomer...