Front page of the Daily Mail on the address given by Ernest Bevin on the plan for a Western European Union (23 January 1948)
Text On 23 January 1948, the British daily newspaper Daily Mail leads with the address given the previous day in the House of Commons by Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, in which he criticised the political designs of the Soviet Union and called for a Western European Union.
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Source: Daily Mail. For King and Commonwealth. 23.01.1948, No 16.129. London. "Bevin's Western Union", p. 1.
Copyright: (c) Daily Mail
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