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Then Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin hulked to his feet. Said he: "I wish there were similar parliaments . . . and free and unfettered discussion of this problem in other countries in Europe. . . . There are two kinds of hunger in Europe today. One is physical. . . . But I sometimes think that the awful blackout over Europe is creating a great spiritual hunger...
Price of Stupidity. Bevin for the first time openly regretted that Germany had been split into occupation zones, in effect admitted that the system was not working: "It might be said that we were wrong to develop zones. . . . Probably . . . it would have been better if we had not done it." He reported that some 15 million German "displaced persons" were being chivied back & forth across Europe; that some ten million Frenchmen, Italians and others were also waiting to go home. Telling of how he watched the misery-laden procession of refugees in Berlin, he said: "I felt, my God, that...
...Roosevelt was asked if she was discouraged by the failure of the London conference. Her reply: "No. I don't think it surprising that men who knew each other so little as they did could not arrive at the answers to all the questions they considered. Mr. Bevin and Mr. Byrnes were entirely new, and we should have known from his background that Mr. Bevin would be difficult. Mr. Byrnes was put in the position of mediator and he was not prepared...
...moment, he bided his time so stolidly that impatient young Tories took umbrage, growled that Winston was ignoring them as usual. Clement Attlee earnestly answered Members' questions. Ponderous Ernie Bevin recounted what was already an old story, the meeting of the Big Five Foreign Ministers. Churchill, who well knew the exasperations of a session with Molotov, conceded that Bevin had given a "clear, temperate and able statement . . . made upon the disappointing event...
...Knew As Much . . ." In 1929, when the Laborite Daily Herald was reorganized, Ernest Bevin picked Francis Williams for his City (i.e., financial) Editor. Says Williams: "I have always felt that a specialist journalist should know as much as, say, the bankers and stockbrokers. . . or whatever department of journalism he is working in. . . . I put myself in a position in which I knew as much as they did, if not a bit more...