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Piecemeal Approach. "Western Union" was one of the commonest phrases for the unity which men were trying for in 1948. The phrase was Ernie Bevin's. He had floated it out on the air in January, without ever quite defining it. A fortnight ago at a private gathering, somebody asked Bevin just what he had meant. He replied passionately and well for 25 minutes, leaving his hearers under the double impression that he 1) believed in it with all his heart, and 2) did not know what "it" was. But one thing was clear enough: some kinds of unification...
Profitable Paradox. In 1929, T.U.C.'s Ernie Bevin swung the deal that made the Herald the profitable paradox it is today. Bevin sold a 51% interest to Odhams' Press, run by a business wizard named Julius Salter Elias (later Lord Southwood). Elias was willing to let Labor tell him how to sell Socialism, as long as he could tell Labor how to sell papers...
Opening of a Workshop. This week in Paris the 16 nations which will receive Marshall Plan aid met to grapple with that obstacle. As they met in the Salon de l'Horloge of the Foreign Ministry, the conference chairman, Ernest Bevin, told them: "I think the world might be assured that this organization is not a conference but a workshop. It will be charged with the duty of determining practical steps to build up European production [and] to reduce the dollar deficit...
...During the Council of Foreign Ministers," he recalled, "during one of the more pleasant-or shall I say, least unpleasant-moments, I found myself talking to Mr. Molotov in the presence of [Mr. Bevin]. Mr. Molotov asked me whether I had studied the works of Karl Marx. I replied that I had, but that I was anything but a Marxist. Foreign Minister Molotov suggested that one was unlikely to find a good Marxist in the House of Lords. Mr. Bevin then put in: 'That is just where you are wrong. The House of Lords are the only people...
...London, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin defended the dispatch of the cruisers as necessary "to insure the protection of life and property," and urged again that the question of title be left up to the International Court of Justice. When an M.P. reminded him that the Guatemalans had threatened to quit buying Scotch whiskey, Bevin boomed that it was all right with him. "I have already suggested," he said, "that it should come to London." (Unfortunately for M.P.s, Guatemala buys but .002% of Britain's Scotch exports...