Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bevin meant both statements. Yet they could be in apparent conflict if the Russians chose to press upon the internally weakened Empire. As Bevin spoke, the Empire was creaking in a high wind-and its troubles had a direct connection with Russian pressures. Prime Minister Clement Attlee told Parliament that "leftwing elements and Communists" had fanned the Bombay mutiny. Whether they had or not, Russia's championship of dependent peoples at UNO had obviously aggravated widespread colonial unrest...
...Friendly Neighbors." Grave, greying Anthony Eden gave Bevin the full backing of the Conservatives. Bevin had more challenges from the 40-odd Labor backbenchers who think he is too harsh on Russia than he got from the Tory opposition. He answered them by wheeling round to face his own side of the House as he said: "You cannot carry out a foreign policy on a very narrow and limited basis, neither can you alter history by a slogan...
...union organizer, Bevin knew that the only way to alter historical processes was by organization. As a Socialist, Bevin recognized the meaning of the satellite bloc Russia is forming on her borders. He has long been eager to balance it with a Socialist grouping in Western Europe. Communists-but not the Kremlin-have said that such a move would be a threat to Russia. Bevin told the House of Commons that he had "deliberately raised" the question at Moscow last December with Stalin: "You want friendly neighbors. Well, in my street I want friendly neighbors too." He reminded Stalin...
...quick shift to the offense, Moscow accused Canadian Prime Minister King of launching an "unbridled anti-Soviet campaign . . . aimed at inflicting political harm on the Soviet Union." Echoed Pravda: "Mr. King barged out to give aid to Mr. Bevin who put the British Government into a difficult position with his speeches ... at the United Nations...
...Attlee and Bevin, most of the Cabinet appeared in evening dress. But leftist Health Minister Aneurin Bevan inevitably went in a sack suit, his leftist-M.P. wife Jennie Lee in her usual red tweed coat and lizard-skin shoes. Outside the royal box there were only two tiaras. And Covent Garden's scarlet-&-gold opulence had been restored mostly by mere elbow grease. Explained the manager: "Very little new paint has been used, and then only in cases where it was necessary for cleanliness. . . . There is hardly a spot of new gilt anywhere in the theater...