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Ernest Bevin did more than any other man in London to lift UNO above its fears. Many an emissary from smaller nations had come to London with ideals as high as Bevin's, and higher eloquence. But Bidault, for instance, dared not speak up; French Communists were too strong, and France too weak. The world's most powerful nation was represented in London first by U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes, a habitual compromiser, and then by Stettinius, a competent, sincere negotiator. But they expended their energies on conjuring up patchwork formulas...
Bevin rose above their level, tossed aside the numbing, ambiguous grandiloquence of traditional diplomacy which made international dialogue sound remote and unreal. He spoke as no statesman had ever spoken before in international councils. He spoke, and his example made others speak, as though UNO were not a precarious assembly of many nations, but a parliament of respectable and genuine power. He spoke up to the Russians as a great many plain people in pubs and corner drugstores had often wanted to speak. Gasped one European delegate: "My God! We are playing chess, and Bevin is playing darts...
Price of Peace. The Balkans-except Greece-are already in the widening Soviet orbit. The Russians all but have their hands on Iran's oil, and certainly have their eyes on the pipeline in the Levant states, which last week asked UNO for withdrawal of British and French troops. Russian diplomatic radar is feeling out the Arab League. Turkey is under pressure to let Russia dominate the Dardanelles. Russia's good friend Tito is still clamoring for Trieste on the Adriatic, and Russia herself is clamoring for a one-panel trusteeship in Tripolitania...
...become the king's Foreign Secretary to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Socialist or no, Bevin meant to fight for the king's Empire. As always, he would drive a hard bargain. Above all, he would fight-as he had fought last week in UNO, for a way of dealing with Russia that did not involve giving in to every Russian demand...
...single party, a single list of candidates, a secret police and a controlled press. He knows that the West's brand of freedom is no longer welcome in a great many parts of the world today, but he still believes in it, and when he shouted in UNO he did so in the conviction that freedom need not whisper anywhere...