Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clement Attlee had not attained his objective-the British-American Big Two which Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin suggested last fortnight. But Britain's Socialist Prime Minister might yet fulfill the aim of his 19th-Century predecessor, Canning, who "called in the New World to redress the balance...
Majority or Minority. To anxious Arabs and Jews this development held important corollaries which Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin candidly underlined in London. Said he: "We never undertook to establish a Jewish state [in Palestine], but we did undertake to establish a Jewish home, and that we must fulfill." Bevin had taken his stand on a literal interpretation of the 1917 Balfour Declaration ("The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people . . ."). Said an Arab spokesman in Cairo: "We are happy, but we can't afford to show...
...Bevin on the Bomb. Said Bevin: "Let it be remembered that we are not the sole agents in this matter. . . . There is a greater disturbance in the United States ... as the possessors of this bomb and having the responsibility of it, than there is among some countries not in possession of the bomb. ... It is a question of arriving at a moment of complete confidence as to whom you entrust it. The road to that complete confidence [depends] on confidence in the policy you are all following and the obligations you are entering into. . . . We have not arrived at that...
...neighbors on its street. . . You will probably think I am a little energetic about this. But I am a little resentful and I think the House will agree I am entitled to be. . . ." Churchill on the Bomb. The atomic bomb was the nub. On this crucial subject, Churchill and Bevin addressed them selves not only to the U.S. and Russia but to the British public and press, lately convinced that the U.S. was holding out on Great Britain. Said Churchill: "According to our present understanding with the United States, neither country is en titled to disclose its secrets...
...whit disturbed, Attlee doodled diligently during the speeches. Afterward he and Bevin went out together. Their destination: the Soviet Embassy, to drink Russia's health in vintage vodka, celebrating the 28th anniversary of the October Revolution...