Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, that their Ernie had indeed made or confirmed a historic change. A main tradition of British foreign policy had been to stand aloof from Europe, and to use Britain's weight to keep two opposing continental groups in a balance where British power could tip the scales. Bevin still believed that "no one nation should dominate Europe." But he added: "The old-fashioned conception of the balance of power should be discarded...
Cabled TIME'S London Bureau Chief John Osborne: "Perhaps Bevin's words seemed flat to his British hearers because so much of his history had already been made. Part of the profound change that has overtaken Britons in the last year has been the growing awareness that they are Europeans, no longer islanded in glorious and superior detachment. Recognition of Russia as Britain's enemy and European Communism as the enemy's instrument has proceeded apace for many months; the process is now well nigh complete...
...Labor government, which had once jeered him down, come to the realization of Soviet peril which he had voiced at Fulton, 22 months before. He had seen it also follow his lead for Western unity. But he was not quite satisfied. He stomped out to the lobby after Bevin's speech, grumping: "I want something bigger, something bigger." Next day, before packed galleries (Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had come to listen), Churchill produced it: a proposal for one last bid for "lasting settlement" with Russia. He was not up to his oratorical form, but grim earnestness...
...blast against Communism was the Prime Minister's own. He had picked his own time for loosing it: last week's valedictory to politics. He had written it without consulting the Cabinet, and he spoke it without relation to Ernest Bevin's anti-Russian blast in Britain (see INTERNATIONAL). If the words seemed strong from the mouth of a Mackenzie King, who usually speaks softly, it was because he had been alarmed by what he learned of the world's state during his visit to Europe last November. Excerpts...
...news from London was just what U.S. supporters of the European Recovery Program had been waiting for. Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin's firm pledge to seek a union of Western European states (see INTERNATIONAL) fitted snugly into the Marshall Plan. The grave and dramatic announcement could hardly have been better timed...