Word: bevanism
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...Aneurin Bevan warned yesterday that "all the elements in the world today are moving toward catastrophe" and that the polarization of power makes conflict inevitable...
Recommending that the areas of closest contact, such as the Middle East and Central Europe, be made into neutral areas or "geographic cushions," Bevan echoed the advice of Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, who made similar recommendations in his Godkin Lectures here last spring...
...Bevan, in an informal press conference, stressed the need to reduce the degree to which the United States and Soviet Russia have divided the world into separate camps. Bevan, however, declined the role of "bridge" between the two camps, saying that the Labour Party in England cannot and will not ditch British commitment to NATO...
...same time, Aneurin Bevan disclosed in London tonight that Nikita Khrushchev had outlined to him at Yalta on Sept. 16 an alleged four-stage plot by the United States for the Turkish occupation of Syria...
...U.S.S.R.," he said with heavy emphasis, "this country would be poisoned together with the rest of mankind. I want an opportunity of influencing the policies of these countries. If a Socialist Foreign Secretary is to have a chance, he must not be disarmed diplomatically and intellectually." Bevan seemed utterly frank. He said he had heard rumors that he was taking this line only because he wanted to be Foreign Secretary. "Hear, hear," a voice cried. Said Nye plaintively: "That is a pretty bitter thing to say about me. I would never do anything I did not believe...