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...which the U.S. hopes will take over as a provisional government. But disagreement remained on everything else, including the composition of the council. The Russians wanted it to include the Organization of Free German Women, the Farmers' Aid Society, and the Culture Bund-all Communist fronts. Replied Ernie Bevin: "We should consult well-known groups, rather than these others. As a very old propagandist of the Socialist Party, I know a lot about . . . why they exist...
Furthermore, Bevin said: "Nothing I agree to politically for Germany can go into effect until a workable settlement has been reached economically." That was the rub. Marshall offered a slight concession to the Russians' demand for reparations from German current production; he declared that the U.S. would "study" the demand on condition: 1) that the Soviets would agree to leave in Germany certain factories originally slated to be removed to Russia and take their reparations only from these factories; 2) that current production reparations must not increase occupation costs, or retard German self-support. Under these terms, Russia, which...
Only heaven and the London dockers knew what old Trade Unionist Ernie Bevin would say when he got back from Moscow and heard about the bejeweled blacklegs in Bombay...
...point of the Moscow proceedings last week, Ernie Bevin sighed and asked helplessly: "Where are we?" Said France's Bidault: "God knows." Cracked Bevin: "I didn't know He was a member of the Council...
Tactics & Strategy. George Marshall drove himself and his colleagues hard. One incident was typical. Bevin suggested that the deputies for Austria be asked to submit their report. Molotov objected: "The Austrian deputies may not be prepared to report on such short notice." Whereupon Marshall snapped in his crispest military tone: "The American deputy will be ready." Half an hour later, the American deputy (General Mark Clark) was told at his hotel to make a progress report next day. Cried he, aghast: "We made a report on London. You mean progress here?" Then he stalked off to write a report...