Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians have always known that Churchill feared and opposed the growth of Soviet power in eastern and central Europe. Nevertheless, it was clear at Potsdam that the Russians had more respect for Tory Churchill than for Socialist Premier Clement Attlee and his Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Russian Communists have been in power long enough to recognize the authoritative accents of a ruling class when they hear them; besides, there is the old Communist contempt for the "soft" socialist mentality...
...good friend Joseph E. Davies were Truman's mainstays at the big table. Thirty or more experts sat at little tables around the room. Churchill, while he was there, often consulted Attlee. When he returned from London, Attlee had less to say than Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Truman, a brisk and affable chairman, did not wander from the point as Roosevelt used to do. Some correspondents said that Stalin looked old and tired. But returning U.S. delegates said that Uncle Joe never looked better...
...Clement R. Attlee and Mr. Ernest Bevin arrived on planes six minutes apart. Mr. Bevin is Mr. Attlee's heir presumptive as leader of the Labor Party and Prime Minister, and it was deemed unwise to risk both leaders on the same plane. (Harry Truman and his next-in-succession Jimmy Byrnes had established the practice...
...prewar building of 350,000 houses a year, Churchill said: "Hold onto your chairs. This is going to be one you don't like-two-thirds of those [houses] were built by private enterprise. Why have we not built houses? You can ask Mr. Attlee and Mr. Bevin and that great London hero Mr. Morrison, for if we are to blame, they are too." Mention of Labor's leaders sent the hecklers into a new frenzy. Said Churchill: "Another two minutes will be allowed for booing, if you'd like...
...prospective Prime Minister, the Labor Party picked amiable, colorless Clement Attlee, since a choice between strong-arm trade unionist Ernest Bevin and smart-policy exponent Herbert Morrison might split the Party. Ernest Bevin was tipped as prospective Foreign Secretary. Promptly he expounded Labor's foreign policy...