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...Tell the Bahstads." The British attitude on denazification differed from the Russian and U.S. policies. A Briton explained that it did not matter much if the head of a public-utility system was a Nazi: "We tell the bahstads what to do, you know, so their political beliefs make no difference really." From the standpoint of getting things done efficiently with a minimum occupation staff, the British system worked. Its effect on the political future of Germany was another matter...
...four Allies around the table spoke different languages. When the question of "democratic" trade-union elections came up, the Western Allies stalled. They had long since found out that the Soviets had their own peculiar definition of "democratic." The Russian glibly championed the cause of labor against the Briton, who represented a Labor Government...
Then there were Palestine, and housing, and India-the whole host of postwar posers over whose liquidation Winston Churchill no longer had to preside. Many a Briton who had helped Labor into the driver's seat wondered when, and how, Labor would get going...
...Protected. No Greek would deny that Damaskinos holds his Regency today, and keeps his Government in power, only with the support of the British Army in Greece. On their fateful visit to Athens last December, at the height of the tragic battle between Greek and Greek, and Greek and Briton, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden chose Damaskinos as the one Greek who might save his countrymen from themselves-and who might save Greece for Britain and the western world...
Biggest social event was Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's dreary cocktail party in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. The most conspicuous guests were the broad-shouldered, anonymous young men clustered around Foreign Commissar Molotov. Their hip pockets bulged. Said a Briton: "Damme! Pistols in the House of Lords. Incredible...