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Almost every time you turn on the radio, you hear jokes about U.N., Molotov, Bevin or some other aspect of the organization...
...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...
...anti-Bevin rebellion in the Labor Party's ranks was the subject of a terse party caucus. Rebel Leader Richard Grossman, after stern, reproving lectures behind locked doors by Prime Minister Attlee and other party fathers, had apologized and promised not to do it again. But, said one Labor M.P.: "It's like the man who finds that his wife has been unfaithful. She says she's sorry, and they are to patch up the marriage and carry on for the sake of the children. But the honeymoon is definitely over...
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...
Arid if they don't, guessed Columnist Brown, Bevin might just quit...