Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris this week, the U.S. Secretary of State stopped for a two-day parley with French leaders. His next stop would be London. There Acheson would first confer with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, gaunt-faced (21 Ibs. below his usual 231) after an operation and three weeks in a hospital. Then France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman would join them for three-way discussions. Later, Acheson would meet with representatives of the nine other North Atlantic signatories...
Another change is that men who lived in a particular room this year did not retain squatters rights in new assignments, as they had previously. Bevin said the applications were divided about evenly between the five new Graduate Center dormitories and Hastings Hall. Incoming students have received room application blanks by mail. There will be approximately 250 spaces open to them...
Churchill begged Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin to press for a Germany able to defend itself. But Bevin replied that he could not urge such a policy on his French allies. Bevin, sick and cautious, left for Strasbourg in no mood for grand designs...
Western leaders had been stressing the political importance of keeping Germany in our sphere of influence and the nation's economic importance to European recovery. But Ernest Bevin stated that there would not be "a lot of courting of Germany to get them in" the Council. Adenauer, however, announced three conditions the Allies must accept before West Germany would consider entering. They were: 1) that a formal invitation to join be sent to the Bonn Parliament; 2) that the Saar issue be reviewed in the final peace treaty; 3) that West Germany have an observer on the Council's Committee...
During the visit, France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman had a 70-minute session with Britain's Ernest Bevin. They did not reach or seek specific agreements, merely exchanged views on many subjects of interest to both countries; the diplomats call this a tour d'horizon. But the most important discussions centered on European integration, where, according to the French, the British have been dragging their feet. Bevin explained Britain's position-particularly on the U.S.-backed European payments scheme: 1) the United Kingdom's dollar reserves are so low that she cannot commit herself...