Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...partitionists had already been given the go-ahead by U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes. As the Congress got under way, they received unexpected impetus from another all-important direction. Despite fierce Arab opposition, Ernest Bevin was reliably reported as having adopted "some form of partition" as Britain's official policy...
Going Concern. The agreement signed by Secretary of State James Byrnes and British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin formalizes a setup devised by the U.S. Army's Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and his British opposite number, Lieut. General Sir Brian Robertson. The Clay-Robertson plan established five bipartite, interzonal policy committees to supervise finance, economics, transport, communications, food and agriculture. Actual administration is left to six-man German joint committees in each of these fields. Clay and Robertson guessed that the program would cost the U.S. and Britain $1,000,000,000 over the next three years...
...clumsy review entitled Between Ourselves, due to open in London's West End next week, ran into censorship trouble with the Lord Chamberlain for lampooning those Laborites (including Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin) who occasionally drop...
Return Address. In Midland, Pa., James Aeschbacher stole Ernest Albert's car, a few days later called for a blind date, found she was Albert's daughter...
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, busily engaged in Big Four conferences in the U.S., was well aware of the uneasiness at home and the embarrassing abstention of nearly a third of Labor M.P.s on a vote for his support. Gossiped craggy W. J. Brown, Independent M.P. and regular London Evening Standard commentator: "When [Bevin] comes home he will insist on a showdown, probably by claiming a solid vote of confidence at a party meeting. This may easily precipitate another crisis. For the abstentionists, having condemned his foreign policy, can hardly vote for a motion of confidence...