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Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb delivered the free world's telling reply. A brilliant career diplomat, a trusted counselor of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and one of U.N.'s architects,* Sir Gladwyn had just taken over from Sir Alexander Cadogan as chief British delegate. Said he: "No amount of photographs of Mr. Dulles in a trench-and I only wish there had been more trenches-no suggestion that he himself first rushed across the frontier, no repetition of arguments which a child could refute . . . can obscure the patent fact that it was the North Korean troops...
...Ernie Bevin, a Socialist for 46 years, got scolded last week for conduct unbecoming a Socialist. Britain's ailing Foreign Secretary has lately undergone two operations for hemorrhoids; each time he went to a private hospital. Under the British socialized-medicine scheme, he could have picked any Health Service hospital and had a free room, a free operation and free nursing...
Medicine Today and Tomorrow, the journal of Britain's Socialist Medical Association, criticized Bevin for "having his unfortunate illness treated at two places outside the National Health Service." It added accusingly: "He is not the only person prominent in the Labor movement who has gone outside the National Health Service." This was an unkind cut too. It was aimed at Sir Stafford Cripps, who went to a Swiss vegetarian clinic last year to soothe his troubled stomach...
...bedside of Britain's No. 1 sufferer from hemorrhoids, Ernie Bevin, came two young Swiss trade unionists bearing a gift from their fellow workers back home: a handsome gold watch alleged to be "one of the nearest things to perpetual motion ever invented...
From his sickbed in a London hospital, ailing Ernest Bevin made a new proposal: let the Western Foreign Ministers meet to examine the procedure to be followed in negotiations. Within 40 minutes, the French rejected that suggestion, declared that it would simply waste time. The French and their continental friends announced they would go ahead without Britain, but would keep the British informed. His Majesty's government expressed a hope that Britain might be able to join the plan once the details became clear...