Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York next week, Acheson will face an emergency meeting of the West's Big Three foreign ministers; he wanted tangible evidence to show the others that the U.S. intended to defend, not merely liberate, Western Europe in case of war. He needed something to spur Britain's Bevin and France's Schuman (see FOREIGN NEWS) into getting busy too. This is what Acheson proposed...
...postwar international planning. He played a key advisory role at Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, San Francisco, did much of the British spadework for U.N. and the North Atlantic pact. Since 1948, as Deputy Under Secretary of State, he has been the trusted (and devoted) assistant to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin...
...Equality. In the discussions next month between Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Secretary of State Dean Acheson in Washington the U.S. will continue to reject the British viewpoint. But the U.S. itself, unless it changes its own line again, will defend a position that is also based on inconsistency. The U.S. Government, though it is pledged to the defense of Formosa, is still unwilling to work in anything like partnership with the Nationalist government on Formosa, and never misses a chance to make the point clear, even though an assault by the Reds would make partnership an absolute necessity. Furthermore...
Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb delivered the free world's telling reply. A brilliant career diplomat, a trusted counselor of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and one of U.N.'s architects,* Sir Gladwyn had just taken over from Sir Alexander Cadogan as chief British delegate. Said he: "No amount of photographs of Mr. Dulles in a trench-and I only wish there had been more trenches-no suggestion that he himself first rushed across the frontier, no repetition of arguments which a child could refute . . . can obscure the patent fact that it was the North Korean troops...
Medicine Today and Tomorrow, the journal of Britain's Socialist Medical Association, criticized Bevin for "having his unfortunate illness treated at two places outside the National Health Service." It added accusingly: "He is not the only person prominent in the Labor movement who has gone outside the National Health Service." This was an unkind cut too. It was aimed at Sir Stafford Cripps, who went to a Swiss vegetarian clinic last year to soothe his troubled stomach...