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Bulky, bossy Ernest Bevin, British to the bone, considers himself more of a proletarian than Molotov. Last week Laborite Bevin became the first official spokesman of a great power to advocate a world assembly elected directly by the peoples, not appointed by their governments...
...Bevin's speech in the House of Commons showed how far Britain had moved from prewar nationalism and imperialism. Britain, said Britain's Foreign Secretary, was now ready to give up a portion of her sovereignty to such a world parliament, to merge the power of the British people and of the House of Commons "into the greater power" that could guard "the great repositories of science and destruction...
Clement Attlee had not attained his objective-the British-American Big Two which Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin suggested last fortnight. But Britain's Socialist Prime Minister might yet fulfill the aim of his 19th-Century predecessor, Canning, who "called in the New World to redress the balance...
Majority or Minority. To anxious Arabs and Jews this development held important corollaries which Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin candidly underlined in London. Said he: "We never undertook to establish a Jewish state [in Palestine], but we did undertake to establish a Jewish home, and that we must fulfill." Bevin had taken his stand on a literal interpretation of the 1917 Balfour Declaration ("The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people . . ."). Said an Arab spokesman in Cairo: "We are happy, but we can't afford to show...
...whit disturbed, Attlee doodled diligently during the speeches. Afterward he and Bevin went out together. Their destination: the Soviet Embassy, to drink Russia's health in vintage vodka, celebrating the 28th anniversary of the October Revolution...