Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet press and radio, taking its cue from Molotov, blamed "the Anglo-Saxon bloc" for the deadlock. A fortnight ago Ernest Bevin had told the House of Commons: "Have we the moral right to say to 21 nations . . . 'you must go on in a state of war because we four gentlemen can't agree?' Really, this is an intolerable situation." He hinted at separate peace treaties with the former enemies. This obviously would split Europe in two. Molotov in Moscow had already said: "An intolerable situation...
...occasion the worry of trying to form a new Cabinet, squirmed agilely through the pack in his capacity of host-he failed to notice the repressed wince as he inadvertently trod on Molotov's toe. It was Molotov who set the tone by greeting his old enemy Bevin with "Davaite govorit korotko" (let's make this one snappy!). "Very good," said Bevin...
First item on the agenda was Italy, where outbreaks had followed the king's ouster (see FOREIGN NEWS). Molotov demanded that the Big Four look promptly into the royalist riots to determine if Fascists were plotting a comeback. Byrnes and Bevin agreed. So far, things had gone korotko enough...
...Bevin lost his calm tone when he tried to bring home the dreadful day-to-day consequences of the ideological conflict: "[It] is holding up the distribution of food in Europe. Let us fight that out, on some basis, but not on the bellies of the people...
...Eagle on His Perch. Next day, Winston Churchill rose not to reply but to agree. He warmly praised Bevin's conduct of foreign affairs (to Ernie's gruff embarrassment). Churchill scored Soviet propaganda, according to which "all oppression from the left is progression, all resistance from the right is reactionary. . . ." Grimly he warned: "The idea of keeping scores of millions of people hanging about in subhuman state between earth and hell until they are worn down to slave conditions and accept Communism or die off will only breed moral pestilence and probably...