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...Edith Summerskill, chief delegate for the United Kingdom, summed up the difficulty: "There is no pressure group for the hungry-they are unorganized." Organized or not, the hungry were a potent political factor. "Famine," said Sir John, "is the greatest politician of all." Ernest Bevin put it more bluntly in London: "Naziism cannot exist, Communism cannot exist, if you remove from the world want and starvation...
...have never followed any man," said Ernest Bevin in the days of desperate wartime coalition. "But I will follow that man." He was speaking of Winston Churchill. Last week, in the days of postwar doubt and division, the friendship between the Conservative aristocrat and the Socialist commoner finally broke...
...five hours, Commons hotly debated Britain's proposed withdrawal from Egypt and the hitch in the Cairo negotiations. Churchill insisted that British troops stay in Egypt to protect the Suez Canal. Replied Bevin: "It is not a very popular thing now in international affairs to maintain troops on other people's soil. It is becoming out of fashion...
...other obstacles, the biggest was still Trieste. The Italians and Yugoslavs both swore they would sign no treaty that did not give them this key port at the head of the Adriatic. Byrnes and Bevin switched their proposed boundaries in this area to a line (suggested by France) which gave Yugoslavia roughly 2,000 sq. miles but left Trieste to Italy. Molotov did not budge an inch from his line, which would put 500,000 Italians in Yugoslavia...
...Bevin disposed of two other painful matters with masterly dispatch. Since two teeth hurt him, he simply had them...