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...Russians have always known that Churchill feared and opposed the growth of Soviet power in eastern and central Europe. Nevertheless, it was clear at Potsdam that the Russians had more respect for Tory Churchill than for Socialist Premier Clement Attlee and his Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Russian Communists have been in power long enough to recognize the authoritative accents of a ruling class when they hear them; besides, there is the old Communist contempt for the "soft" socialist mentality...
...Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, meeting in London, that "prodigious inventions in the field of destruction have given an air of unreality to the whole organization. . . ." But he deplored the view "that we must either immediately constitute a superstate or the whole world will blow...
Scowls & Love. Twelve minutes after Churchill began speaking, Ernest Bevin shuffled in. Churchill stopped, cast a radiant smile across the aisle. Said he: "I am very glad to see the new Foreign Secretary sitting on the front bench opposite. I would like to say with what gratification I learned that the right honorable gentleman had taken on this high office." Bevin scowled. Few can pay compliments so gracefully as Churchill; few can receive them as gracelessly as Bevin. Later, when Labor members teased Bevin about his fondness for Churchill, he growled: "But I love him. I love...
...good friend Joseph E. Davies were Truman's mainstays at the big table. Thirty or more experts sat at little tables around the room. Churchill, while he was there, often consulted Attlee. When he returned from London, Attlee had less to say than Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Truman, a brisk and affable chairman, did not wander from the point as Roosevelt used to do. Some correspondents said that Stalin looked old and tired. But returning U.S. delegates said that Uncle Joe never looked better...
...Clement R. Attlee and Mr. Ernest Bevin arrived on planes six minutes apart. Mr. Bevin is Mr. Attlee's heir presumptive as leader of the Labor Party and Prime Minister, and it was deemed unwise to risk both leaders on the same plane. (Harry Truman and his next-in-succession Jimmy Byrnes had established the practice...