Entente Neo-Coloniale?: Ernest Bevin and the Proposals for an Anglo–French Third World Power, 1945–1949
Anne Deighton
Ernest Bevin made the Third World Power project his own. He sought an imperial grouping led by Britain and France with economic defence components social-democratic values. It was to be a way access raw materials bolster European economies, in time create global, strategic space between U.S. Soviet Union. Bevin's alternative vision failed, part because demands of cold war bipolarity trumped concept. The also poorly conceived badly managed, did not stem antagonism France. France, unlike Britain, soon able upgrade its commercial interests through Communities.
Diplomacy & Statecraft