Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other cabinet moves, however, which might huct Attlee more than they helped. The first was the transfer of bright young (40) Hector McNeil from Minister of State in the Foreign Office to Secretary of State for Scotland. The effect of this was to deprive ailing Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin of his ablest aide. The other shuffle of doubtful value was the appointment of former Food Minister John Strachey to the post of Secretary of State for War (see below...
Labor's leaders were resentful at the injection of a world question into a campaign that had been comfortably domestic. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin brushed off Churchill's proposal as a political "stunt." Prime Minister Clement Attlee faced old Winston's challenge: "We are ready and eager to discuss with Russia, the United States, Canada and all other nations ways and means of dealing with this menace...
...Churchill, the Conservative leader, is a strong backer of a European political union, he would probably be no more amenable to integrating Britain's economy with that of the rest of Western Europe than is the present cabinet. The only point on which the Tories have seriously attacked Ernest Bevin's foreign policy is the granting of independence to India and Burma, which could hardly be revised...
...Churchill's recent proposal for top-level talks between the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union before a hydrogen-bomb race begins, has tended to obscure his general agreement with the "tough" foreign policy followed by Mr. Bevin and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The proposal was surprising, since the Russians have continually labelled Mr. Churchill as a "warmonger." Mr. Bevin has called the whole idea campaign "stunt...
...foreign policy, Labor started with a blind bias toward Russia, but Attftfe and Bevin saw the menace of Russian aggression more quickly than President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes. It was Bevin's bearlike rush at the January 1946 U.N. meeting in London that woke the free world from its complacent friendliness to Russia. In this, Attlee and Bevin were a long way ahead of their party. Pro-Rursian sentiments among Laborites died slowly...