Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recognizing Communist China last Jan. 6, Britain hoped to protect her huge commercial stake there. Some British optimists also hoped to gain a political advantage; they thought that Mao Tse-tung might become another Tito. In the House of Commons last week, ailing Ernie Bevin sadly dismissed the second hope: "I think Mao Tse-tung has been receiving advice from Moscow-his is the same kind of attitude as Moscow...
Although Peking has kept its Communist snoot in the air and has left Britain dangling unrecognized for five months, Bevin still stubbornly defended the first hope: "We had large interests in China . . . The advice I gave to the cabinet was right and, in a few years' time, I think it will turn out to have been right...
...council's concluding session, which was open to newsmen and the public, the tired, rumpled Foreign Ministers appeared on a stage in London's Lancaster House to read a dozen suitable speeches. It was ailing Ernie Bevin who raised his tired head from his hands to express the spirit of what he called the "great Atlantic brotherhood." Said he: "We firmly believe that in the end the free man can never be vanquished by the slave...
Around the blue baize table in London's gloomy Lancaster House, the Western Big Three Foreign Ministers conferred for three days. Dean Acheson, crisp, clear and didactic, drove home his sharp points with a wagging forefinger. Britain's ailing Ernest Bevin, chomping away at his dentures, was his usual solid and grumpy self. France's Robert Schuman punctuated his speeches with faint smiles and exquisite little gestures of courtesy; he sat modestly hunched over the table, as if he were the least important man in the room...
From the Dreamers' Realm. Dean Acheson had gone to London haunted by the feeling that the West had to do something-but he did not know just what. Ernie Bevin was not in the mood to do anything. For nearly two years, the U.S. had insistently told Western Europe that it must integrate economically-and perhaps politically. For nearly two years, the British had quietly blocked all moves toward genuine integration-partly because Britain's Socialist government wanted nothing to do with the non-socialist economies on the Continent. Long before the Foreign Ministers met in London last...