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...Mexico feel about all of this U.S. attention to Europe when he has troubles of his own at home? Is the man on the street in Europe really interested in a United States of Western Europe, or is that just wishful thinking on the part of men like Bevin and Churchill...
...long run, that emphasis might be justified. But in Western Europe last week, there were fresh stirrings of the notion that politics-and political security -needed attending to. Nobody had been quite sure what Britain's heavy-handed Ernest Bevin had had in mind when he made his gesture toward Western European union last month. Europeans hoped he was talking about more than customs agreements. The British starting point on a Western Union, it had developed, was a system of pacts similar to the Anglo-French 50-year alliance (Treaty of Dunkirk) against "German aggression...
...British Foreign Secretary Bevin pledged to seek a customs union of Western European states...
...Zionist movement has never been a communistic one. In the last elections to the Jewish National Council in Palestine the Communists managed to elect one delegate out of 600. The strongest political party in Palestine--Mapai--is a labor party, but so is Mr. Bevin's. The Soviet attitude towards Zionism has always been hostile. After the revolution Zionism as a political movement in the Soviet Union was destroyed root and branch. Hebrew is a banned language in Russia. Zionist leaders were imprisoned when the Russians took over Poland during the war. The Kremlin has consistently denounced Zionism, ironically enough...
...first, all was as friendly as Scheherazade's smile. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin hailed Britain'snew 20-year alliance with Iraq as the start of an era "regularizing and expressing the friendship between this country and the Arabic world." The treaty with Iraq confirmed Britain's right to-keep troops in Iraq, train and arm the Iraqi army, maintain airbases. Iraq's Regent Abdul Illah replied to a congratulatory message from Bevin: "I recall with appreciation your precious efforts that have led to this happy result...