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Ernest Bevin

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I think that in the little argument going on now in New York and the differences that have arisen there are emerging three very fundamental principles. One is that it is improper to negotiate or attempt to negotiate or attempt to gain concessions by a great Power out of a little Power by means of occupying that country with your forces. It is the tradition — and I am not saying of one or other country only they have done it — but it is nineteenth-century imperialism that really must be left behind, and I believe that a solution will be found and the principle accepted that those of us who represent the great Powers will not do that.
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"Mr. Bevin on World Politics", The Times, 1 April 1946, p. 4.
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Speech at Bristol, 30 March 1946, referring to the negotiations over the United Nations Charter.

 
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