Word: evatt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Australian Foreign Minister Herbert V. Evatt, who is also his country's prime representative to the United Nations, will give the annual Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures at the Law School this year...
...first issue of the guide will catalogue events ranging from an exhibit of Italian and Dutch masters at the Gardner Museum to Holy Cross game dances from a lecture by Australia's U.N. delegate Herbert Evatt to Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in "Dark Passage...
...Conference that it adopt rules of procedure requiring a two-thirds' majority for any action. The small nations opened the meeting with protests that such a rule would reduce to absurdity the already limited powers of the conference. Australia's stocky, hard-hitting Foreign Minister Herbert Vere Evatt (rhymes with rev it) was spokesman for the small nations as he had been at San Francisco; he went to bat for a simple majority rather than a two-thirds' majority rule. He was bitterly seconded by Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, chairman of the Rules Committee...
Revolt of the Meek. On the surface the Big Four presented the extraordinary spectacle of unity in the face of the small powers' rebellion. Actually, the cleavage between Russia and the West was as deep as ever. Evatt was not only fighting for the little nations but also against Russia. The Soviets did make two important concessions: 1) the press will have access to all Conference meetings; 2) the agenda will be open to any additional points connected with the peace treaties. In turn, Jimmy Byrnes supported Russia's demand for a rotating Big Four chairmanship (said Byrnes...
...course open to the U.S. and Britain was to insist that the 17 smaller nations be called to Paris where, beginning July 29, they will work on the edges of the puzzle-Finland, Italy, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary. "It is a fallacy," said Australia's Dr. Herbert V. Evatt last week, "to suppose that all knowledge and all wisdom reside at the center of military power...