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Biggest social event was Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's dreary cocktail party in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. The most conspicuous guests were the broad-shouldered, anonymous young men clustered around Foreign Commissar Molotov. Their hip pockets bulged. Said a Briton: "Damme! Pistols in the House of Lords. Incredible...
...week South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes had been Secretary of State just two months. There were some who still felt a little anxious about the U.S. being represented-and among all those experienced foreigners-by such a comparative neophyte. (Actually, only Molotov has had more experience; the Messrs. Bevin, Bidault and Wrang Shi-chieh are almost equally new to their tasks.) Although he had guided foreign policy bills through the Senate for F.D.R., Jimmy Byrnes's political life had largely been spent on domestic affairs. He had gone to Europe a dozen or so times, mostly for pleasure...
Along Russia's borders from Poland to Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. position evoked response. Even Czechoslovakia's Russophile Fierlinger discussed earnestly with Ernest Bevin concrete plans to divert some of his country's almost exclusively Russian trade down the Elbe toward Britain...
...Government's dampening answer to the "demob" cry came from pale-eyed, mild-mannered Minister of Labor George Isaacs. The Government, he said, would stick to a modified version of the plan drafted by his potent predecessor, Ernest Bevin, six months ago: 1,110,000 men would be released this year, "specialist workers" could go at once. The rest would have to wait...
...indeed. To the microphone went Prime Minister Clement Attlee himself. But he had only cold comfort to give. Said he: Britain cannot shirk her obligation to maintain forces in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East; hence the Bevin plan for gradual demobilization must stand. Two days later, Isaacs again endorsed the plan. "Hell," said a colonel over from Germany, "these aren't the men we voted...