British foreign policy may be well-conceived or ill-conceived—my own conviction
is that it is well-conceived—but no one can com- plain that Ministers are not taking it seriously. Last week is a case in point. The Prime Minister was finishing in Canada the visit he had made to the United States to discuss the atomic bomb, and was back before the week was over to tell the House of Commons about it. Mr. Bevin was delivering in the House a remarkably comprehensive exposition of foreign policy in a dozen fields. The Minister of State, Mr. Noel-Baker, having steered the Executive Committee of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations successfully to its goal, was starting the much larger Pre- paratory Commission itself on its course. And Mr. Hector McNeil, the Parliamentary- Under-Secretary, was in Athens helping the Regent to straighten out that unfortunate country's tangled affairs.
As a whole, a rather remarkable example of team-work. * *
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