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...changing world of the atom, everything suddenly changed. Statesmen strove to raise the atomic debate from the depths of frightened nationalism to the heights of a new internationalism. Two British spokesmen, Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin (see FOREIGN NEWS) strove to bend that internationalism to the uses of a strengthened Anglo-American power alignment, and Clement Attlee tried to sell both ideas to Harry Truman (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Little Two? Between them, Churchill and Bevin sped Attlee to Washington with the clearest statement yet of British purposes. The British Government (but not the entire British public) was willing to pay high for a new Big Two-the U.S. and Britain. Furthermore, the British Government was willing, even anxious, to be the junior partner in the alliance...
...furtherance of this design, Churchill and Bevin begged the House of Commons to accept a temporary U.S. monopoly of atomic manufacture. They gave exaggerated, un-British praise to President Truman's "Twelve Points" of U.S. foreign policy. And Attlee, promoting an international pooling of atomic knowledge and research, clearly assumed that at the start the U.S.-British Big Two would manage the pool...
...Higher Plane. With more dexterity than he is usually given credit for, Attlee left the atomic and power-political grubbing to Churchill and Bevin. Two days later, just before his departure for Washington, the Prime Minister spoke of the atomic bomb on a plane reached in the U.S. only by Captain Harold E. Stassen and Senator Joseph H. Ball (see below). Said Attlee to an audience of London businessmen...
This generous outburst, a credit to British decency, swept Bevin and others of like mind into one historical error. When Bevin said of the Sudeten Germans and the Czechs that they "had lived together in perfect harmony until Hitler's stooges and agents broke up their democratic state," he was falling back on the old, dubious view that Hitler's' New Order had been the work of only a few Nazi gangsters. The 3,000,000 Sudeten Germans, now joining Europe's miserable displaced millions, had risen in a mass to betray the Czechs...