Word: evatt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Australia's hulking, tireless Herbert Vere Evatt led the small and middle nations' fight, as he had at San Francisco. When the Italian treaty came before the Council of Five (for the U.S., Byrnes; for Britain, Bevin; for Russia, Molotov; for France, Bidault; for China, Wang Shih-chieh), Evatt insisted that all the nations that had fought Italy have a say. Russia surprisingly agreed that invitations to speak before the Council be granted to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Russia's friends, Yugoslavia and Poland and the Soviet Republics of the Ukraine and White...
...reasoned, and the way to recognize that fact was by a Big Four presidium which would confine effective discussion to the controlling powers. The Russians never gave up on this issue. But, thanks to Ed Stettinius, Senator Vandenberg and such little-nation spokesmen as Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, they never...
...mouse, Australia's rip-snorting Herbert Vere Evatt said that the Big Five interpretation was narrower than a version given previously by Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with huggin'). Britain's Professor Charles Kingsley Webster said that Sir Alexander made a mistake because New Zealand's Peter Fraser caught him by surprise with a question. Fraser retorted that Cadogan had checked the transcript of the answer with him. Snapped Fraser to Webster: "Don't try to slide out by making misstatements. What you are doing is dishonest." U.S. Senator Tom Connally, who was presiding, got Fraser...
...Committee on Structure & Procedures had quite a week. But there could be only one result: the Committee voted 30-to-2 (with 15 eloquently abstaining) to accept the Yalta formula as interpreted by the Big Five. On the critical test - an amendment by Evatt - the "blocs" split wide open. The Empire went neatly into thirds: Australia and New Zealand voted against the Big Five formula; Britain and South Africa voted for it; Canada and India abstained. Only five Latin Americans stuck with the U.S. Even Iran, which has played close to Russia, voted against the Big Five...
Australia's Herbert Vere Evatt still clamored that the Big Five had "steamrollered" the veto issue. But Big Power spokesmen pointed out that five out of the six small nations on the Council could exercise a veto, too-if they stood together...