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Ernest Bevin was a skilled orator and a former trade unionist who became one of the British Labour Party’s most prominent leaders. He was the main drive behind the creation of NATO. British Foreign Secretary from 1945 to 1951, a staunch anti-Communist and a critic of the Soviet Union, he was committed to bringing Western Europe together in a ...
Apr 4, 2019 · 4 April 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of the treaty that brought NATO into being. Ernest Bevin was the British Foreign Secretary. He believed that co-operation between the...
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The Right Honourable Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Speaking at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty Washington D.C., 4 April 1949. The British public was quasi unanimous in its support for NATO membership in 1949. Like many countries, it had been heavily afflicted by the two World Wars and faced multiple challenges ...
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65 years ago today the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in the State Department auditorium in Washington. An organisation was born—NATO—that remains a cornerstone of Western defence up to the present day. In 1949 there were twelve members: now there are 28. The rationale, scope and cost of NATO provoked some controversy in 1949, and indeed continue...
Since the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union appeared to the West to have evolved from wartime ally to a major threat to democracy and freedom: desiring global domination through the spread of communism, pursuing an ideological imperialism inimical to Western values. The Prague coup of February 1948, show trials in Hungary and bullying i...
By the beginning of 1949, both West and East had serious problems in Europe. For the West, apart from the perceived Soviet threat, there were economic difficulties yet to be alleviated by the European Recovery Programme, exacerbated by the Berlin crisis and the challenges posed by decisions on the future of a divided Germany; a Fascist regime in Sp...
Apr 4, 1999 · Unprecedented in American peacetime history, it was the product of more than a year of political and diplomatic activity in which leading roles were played by Senator Vandenberg and General Marshall of the United States, Ernest Bevin of Britain and Lester Pearson of Canada.
President Harry S. Truman speaks at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization signing ceremony in the State Department Auditorium in Washington, D.C. Seated in a semi-circle behind him are the foreign ministers all the NATO signatory nations, front row, left to right: Ernest Bevin, United Kingdom; Halvard M. Lange, Norway; Joseph Bech, Luxembourg; ...
Note: The President spoke at 4:30 p.m. in the Departmental Auditorium in Washington. In his opening words he referred to Ernest Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom; Halvard Lange, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway; Joseph Bech, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg; Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland; Gustav Rasmussen, Minister ...
