remember last year the british foreign office released the incredible memos on the cold war by ernest bevanif you read these things you can find them online. bevan as a laborite knew about the role of the communist trying to split the movement in britain. you read his long analysis of how the soviet union was a threat to democracy in western europe, absolutely brilliant. and he was trying to educate truman on the issues in what would become the cold war. and it's fascinating because at that time truman came into office, the same thing on his palestine policy just wanting to do what fdr had pledged to do, to fulfill fdr's program. and there's this great historian, most people don't know about him wilson campbell who wrote a book last year "truman and the cold war" truman started listening to roosevelt's writings. and this is all going on contemporary with palestine. you can't strike out -- do something that will totally make bevan and the british your enemies. when the british are going to be a key ally that you need to stand up to the soviet union. >> but it sounds to the issue was newuralg

. >> ernest bevan. >> i thought -- >> he was prime minister -- >> no, ron, it's the opposite. adelaide was prime minister and bevan was -- >> atley was winston churchill's both his predecessor and he came after -- >> over here? >> i've always been curious about george marshall. he threatened to resign and then he didn't resign. >> uh-huh. >> and he's such a large name in american history. do we know anything about his thinking? was he antisemetic. what was his thoughts as to why he opposed so much? >> some people thought that he didn't have very strong feelings about it before he became secretary of state but he was very influenced by the state department once he did become secretary of state and kind of adopted their attitude toward the middle east and a partition and israel. >> also, he had -- he had a long it talk right before the leaders of the jewish agency were going to vote in palestine about whether to proclaim a jewish state. he had a long talk with mosha and he came to see him in his office and the text is available. and he gave him analogies between his experience tr