Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jews had narrowed the Arabs' population lead to two to one, and by their industry and Western talents had made themselves Palestine's senior partner. Their young men had served bravely with the British and won Britain's obligation and sympathy. When Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin then tried to hold them down, they went right ahead bringing in homeless refugees from Hitler's Europe by the boatload. They fought and made their own state. The very day they proclaimed its independence, President Truman recognized Israel. The next day five Arab armies invaded the new republic. Israel...
...ERNEST Bevin would often remark that his one nightmare was lest the Americans should once again fall for the Russian bait [of appeasement]. "If the two of them gang up, there will be nothing left for anyone else." This may prove to be the broad outline of Geneva. Americans and Russians find it easy to jettison one set of principles and try another. British politicians, particularly British Socialists, are not so adaptable. Yet, if we read the meaning of Geneva aright, the feat must be undertaken...
...trials were the legal facade for a vast purge in which half a million Russians are believed to have been shot and another 7,000,000 sent to slave camps. Britain's Laborite Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said later: "I cannot look him in the face without expecting at any moment to see that cruel mouth begin to drip with the blood of his thousands of victims...
This British attitude is not new. It was concealed by the traditional British stiff upper lip and by such bold flashes as Churchill's Fulton speech of 1946 and Ernest Bevin's stand against the Russians at the 1947 London Conference. But underneath, the British know that in a military sense their position is indefensible...
...Commons that the People's Government of China was sending a charge d'affaires to London. All over the House there were murmurs of approval. Laborite Desmond Donnelly rose to remark that here at last was "long-delayed justification of the initiative originally taken by Ernest Bevin in 1950"; Socialists cheered, and Clement Attlee, who is leaving in August on a junket to Peking, nodded his approval...