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...Soviet press and radio, taking its cue from Molotov, blamed "the Anglo-Saxon bloc" for the deadlock. A fortnight ago Ernest Bevin had told the House of Commons: "Have we the moral right to say to 21 nations . . . 'you must go on in a state of war because we four gentlemen can't agree?' Really, this is an intolerable situation." He hinted at separate peace treaties with the former enemies. This obviously would split Europe in two. Molotov in Moscow had already said: "An intolerable situation...
...occasion the worry of trying to form a new Cabinet, squirmed agilely through the pack in his capacity of host-he failed to notice the repressed wince as he inadvertently trod on Molotov's toe. It was Molotov who set the tone by greeting his old enemy Bevin with "Davaite govorit korotko" (let's make this one snappy!). "Very good," said Bevin...
First item on the agenda was Italy, where outbreaks had followed the king's ouster (see FOREIGN NEWS). Molotov demanded that the Big Four look promptly into the royalist riots to determine if Fascists were plotting a comeback. Byrnes and Bevin agreed. So far, things had gone korotko enough...
...Ernie Bevin, target of spirited but disorganized criticism, triumphantly defended his foreign policy, although many Laborites would like to see a strong anti-Franco policy on Spain and a pro-Zionist policy on Palestine...
There was a shakeup in the Paris police over I'affaire Mufti, and Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was sufficiently disturbed by it to order an investigation of his intelligence service. Mr. Bevin was already disturbed by a howl of anger from the U.S. which followed a remark of his at Bournemouth: that the U.S. wanted the 100,000 Jews in Palestine "because they did not want too many of them in New York...