Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernie Bevin, a Socialist for 46 years, got scolded last week for conduct unbecoming a Socialist. Britain's ailing Foreign Secretary has lately undergone two operations for hemorrhoids; each time he went to a private hospital. Under the British socialized-medicine scheme, he could have picked any Health Service hospital and had a free room, a free operation and free nursing...
...bedside of Britain's No. 1 sufferer from hemorrhoids, Ernie Bevin, came two young Swiss trade unionists bearing a gift from their fellow workers back home: a handsome gold watch alleged to be "one of the nearest things to perpetual motion ever invented...
From his sickbed in a London hospital, ailing Ernest Bevin made a new proposal: let the Western Foreign Ministers meet to examine the procedure to be followed in negotiations. Within 40 minutes, the French rejected that suggestion, declared that it would simply waste time. The French and their continental friends announced they would go ahead without Britain, but would keep the British informed. His Majesty's government expressed a hope that Britain might be able to join the plan once the details became clear...
...German heavy industry, a sensible division of military labor by which each member nation will eventually do one main defense job for all, and a unified high command for the cold war on Communism. The meeting had still another achievement, announced last week: during the talks, Messrs. Acheson, Bevin and Schuman reached their first accord on the Near East...
...have Bevin's job as Foreign Secretary during those years disagreed. From the dispatch box opposite Bevin, Anthony Eden attacked the "timing and method" which had put Britain out of step with the U.S., France and most of the Commonwealth. Said Eden sharply: "Recognition has in fact brought out no advantage at all ... Our commercial interests in China are of immense importance [but] it will advantage no one-not those firms, nor anyone else-to embark on a policy of appeasement . . ." British recognition, he added, had adversely affected "events outside China, notably in Indo-China and in Malaya...