Word: evatt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realization that Australia's present plight, and future welfare, are problems which once concerned Britain and Australia, but which are now primarily the concern of the U.S. and Australia. With the Japanese massing for invasion, the Australians were desperate. If tough, blunt talk was needed, burly Herbert Vere Evatt, Minister for External Affairs, was the man to make it. Curtin dispatched him to Washington to plead Australia's case on the brief prepared by Casey...
...that the Pacific War Council should be in Washington. It was "a matter of some regret, after 95 days of Japan's staggering advance south, ever south," that Australia had not yet obtained "firsthand contact with America." Accordingly, he announced that Minister of External Affairs Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt was being sent to Washington. A great leftist authority on constitutional law who lectured at Harvard in 1938, tough-tongued Minister Evatt should be able to make Prime Minister Curtin's message stick...
...Sniffed Australia's Minister for External Affairs, Herbert Vere Evatt: "The invitation to Japan to invade us is nothing short of an invitation to Japan to commit national suicide...
Said one of the Council's Labor members, the brilliant "Red Judge," Herbert Vere Evatt: "It is unfortunate that early communiques suggested that the Anzacs in Greece were part of a large and fully equipped British Army. It is now known that this was entirely misleading...