Word: evatt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...else. Washington's colony of little-nation diplomats fell into the nether pits of gloom. Parisians heard that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, selected last week to head France's delegation to San Francisco, first learned of the deal from his morning newspaper. Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, in the U.S. on his way to London for a preliminary Empire conference, was astounded and enraged. All the dominions knew that Russia had asked for three votes, but not that the U.S. had consented or decided to demand three for itself. British officialdom seemed to be in a similar...
Peter Fraser preceded Curtin to Washington last week. In a way, both were already known there-Fraser through his able, popular Minister Walter Nash, who has been recalled to home duty in Auckland; Curtin through his aggressive, ambitious External Affairs Minister, Dr. Herbert Evatt, who has twice visited and often spoken...
...Australia's Minister for External (Foreign) Affairs, Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, who had just arrived in Washington from Australia, translated this disparity in ominous terms: "This week Port Moresby experienced its 106th air raid when 100 Japanese planes attacked the garrison. . . . The heaviest attack yet made on Rabaul by [Allied] forces of the Southwest Pacific Area has consisted of 37 aircraft...
Baldwin also reported that Australian labor was loafing on its war job. Army Minister Francis Forde, Foreign Minister Herbert Evatt erupted, denounced Baldwin, denied his charges. General MacArthur, incidentally disowning any political ambitions (see p. 21), duly announced he had received the utmost cooperation. But informed observers judged Baldwin was not far wrong, guessed the recent improvement of news from New Guinea, including the Allies' recapture of the Jap base at Kokoda, was one sign that Douglas MacArthur was already solving some very serious internal problems. If this was true, Washington had one good reason (among...
...very satisfactory beginning," said Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs...