Foreign Policy

In Parliament, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin directly supported the U.S. stand on Bulgaria (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), indirectly answered Winston Churchill (see above).

Said Bevin: "The governments set up in Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary do not represent the views of the majority of the people" (all three countries are Russian-dominated). "The impression we get from recent developments is that one kind of totalitarianism is being replaced by another. That is not what we understand by that very much overworked word Democracy."

He had other points to make:

"Greece will never recover while her leaders spend their time continuously, week by week, trying to change the government." The U.S., France and Britain have undertaken "to assist in the supervision" of an election in Greece. The Greek Government announced in Athens that the U.S. and Britain had agreed to send observers and supervisors, but that Russia had declined. The Foreign Secretary challenged Yugoslav charges that Macedonians had been mistreated in northern Greece. The charges, he said, were not substantiated by investigations of British troops in that area.

The Labor Government, said Bevin, would welcome a change of government in Spain, but would take no steps "to permit or encourage civil war in that country."

The Foreign Secretary made another point clear: the Labor Government expects to get back Hong Kong.

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