Word: evatt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain was a test issue before the United Nations Security Council. Was Francisco Franco's regime a potential threat to world peace? And, if so-as Australia's stubborn, logical Herbert Vere Evatt put it last week: what are we going to do about...
...Evatt, who knew that the U.S. was ready to go along on a denunciation of the Franco regime but was reluctant to see a specific time set for the proposed diplomatic boycott (TIME, June 10), argued forcefully for almost an hour in support of the subcommittee's recommendation. When he finished, the other nine Council members looked at each other and at Chairman Alexandre Parodi for several minutes of embarrassed silence...
Australia's Minister for External Affairs Evatt, who tried to unite the nations of the United Nations Organization instead of divide them for the next...
...Prime Minister's vagueness could not hide one fact: an Empire family party was in the making. Also in London -or on the way-were Australia's External Affairs Minister Herbert Vere Evatt, New Zealand's Paddy Webb, South Africa's Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hendrick Hofmeyr. Like Mackenzie King, they were admittedly intent on gaining for Britain's Dominions an effective voice in the writing of the peace. It looked as if four lobbyists were about to turn on the pressure...
...Byrnes. Said he: such a proposal was not on the Foreign Ministers' agenda, and therefore he was not prepared to discuss it. Thoroughly angered at Molotov on other points, Britain's Bevin at first sided with Byrnes. But the Dominions, headed by Australia's bellicose Herbert Evatt, immediately subjected Bevin to such pressure that Byrnes found himself standing alone against everybody else...