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Hoffman found Bevin cool to a proposal to stop dismantling. The Briton argued 1) that it would violate treaties, thus weakening the West's case against Russia, and 2) many of the plants would be more useful in other countries than they would be in Germany. The first point could be argued endlessly; the second is a question of fact, to be investigated plant by plant...
...French tended to agree with Bevin. In Paris a Foreign Office spokesman made a cogent observation: "We will have to rebuild many factories wrecked by the Germans and replace lots of machines stolen by the Germans. Are we to take them from Germany, where they serve no useful purpose now, or are we to get them from the U.S. under the Marshall Plan...
Upshot of the Bevin-Hoffman talks was that preparations for dismantlement would continue, but that actual removals would cease until a U.S. committee of experts had examined the case of each plant with this question in mind: Will it contribute most to EGA if left here or if taken elsewhere? Mr. Hoffman mentioned the case of a plant making cuckoo clocks. "Personally, I'm in favor of letting the Germans make cuckoo clocks...
...House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin made an important statement on Berlin. It was on Fleet Street's front pages within the hour. But in Switzerland, R.H.S. Crossman, Laborite M.P.-journalist on holiday, had to wait 24 hours to read what Bevin had said. Crossman cursed the incompetence of the Swiss press, which ran long book reviews and leisurely think pieces on its newsless front pages. Then he got to thinking it over, and took the curse back...
...could discover," he wrote in a recent issue of London's New Statesman and Nation, "I suffered no ill effects from reading [Bevin] after lunch instead of with my breakfast. Sobered by this discovery, I began to reflect on the philosophy of 'news.' News coverage in our popular press is based on the principle that every paper every day must excel all its rivals in not 'missing' the latest news available ... The definitions of 'hot news' and 'news value' are largely an Anglo-Saxon convention...