Our Aim - Western Union (1949)

Full title reads: “Our Aim - Western Union“. Dorchester House, London. Bevin speaks to Foreign Press Association Luncheon. GV & SV Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors at tables of Foreign Press Association Luncheon. CU Madame Michalowski wife of Polish Ambassador. CU Unknown man. CU Another unknown foreign ambassador. CU French Ambassador, Rene Massigli. SV Italian Ambassador, Count Tomaso Gallariti-Scotti. SV Hector McNeil with a Siamese prince. LV. Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary rises to speak. SV Bevin speaking: “..that all we were doing was trying to create a king of barrier or a means in which we could build a force to defeat the Soviet Government someday in the future, Now, I assert, with all the solemnity I have in me, that that never entered our heads“. SV Bevin speech continued: “I would regard it as the crowning event of my life to establish European unity on a sound, definite and progressive basis...“ SV Bevin speech continued: “I want the working men and women of Europe to have a
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