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British Foreign Secretary Bevin* wrote straight to headquarters to ask why Pravda, the official Communist Party newspaper, had interpreted a stray sentence of his to mean that Britain had ditched her Russian alliance. Replied Stalin: "It is now clear that you and I share the same viewpoint with regard to the Anglo-Soviet treaty." To Bevin's reiterated offer to extend the alliance from 20 to 50 years, Stalin answered: "Before extending this treaty, it is necessary to change it." Bevin will discuss possible changes with Stalin when he visits Moscow in March...
Already named to Barnes's first team are some of the Trib's top reporters. Walter B. Kerr, who "has been living with Byrnes, Molotov and Bevin for months," will trail diplomats. Lanky A. T. Steele, a veteran of Far East coverage, will stick to what he knows best. Pulitzer Prizewinning Homer Bigart's assignment: trouble. As a war correspondent he got schooling for covering riots, revolutions, and world violence, lately has been doing post-graduate work in Palestine and Poland. Says Joe Barnes: "We can't use men who have been stuck in one capital...
Talk of such an alliance against any revival of German military power has been renewed here in the last few days as a result of the Stalin-Bevin exchange over the alliance between Britain and Russia...
...strike. With Britain fighting for her commercial life, there has been a strong prejudice against any form of work stoppage. To prevent grievances, pecuniary and spiritual, there exists a well defined system of mediation boards with broad powers, set up by the Attlee cabinet in 1945. Ernie Bevin, Britain's Foreign Minister, was formerly boss of the truckers before elevation to his present position. By any standard the strike should not have taken place, and surely not in the union which threw a scare into all London...
...appointment of General Marshall to fill his place must be received with mixed emotions. After an almost disastrous beginning, Mr. Byrnes had steadily grown up in the job, learning how to be firm but not hostile with the Russians, learning where American self-interest in walking the Bevin chalk line ended and pulling British chestnuts out of the fire began. In a large measure, the over-all success of the recent meeting of the U.N. Assembly in New York is owning to the efforts of a man who it is now revealed wanted to resign as long ago as last...