Word: evatt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ugly, long-smoldering dispute exploded last week and split Australia's brawling, sprawling Labor Party wide open. Labor Party Chief Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt, 60, openly declared war on the party's biggest single faction: the Catholic right wing, which contains almost half of Labor's membership...
...former High Court judge and Foreign Minister, whose passion to right all wrongs sometimes leads him to wrong the right, shaggy Herbert Evatt had never hit it off with his party's hornyhanded, mainly Catholic trade unionists in the big cities. His indiscriminate sympathy for the underdog led him to plead the case of martyred Cardinal Mindszenty before the U.N., but it also prompted Evatt to lead the opposition when Australia's ruling Liberal Party tried-and failed-to outlaw the Communists in 1951. Evatt's defense of the Reds, high-minded as it was. provoked...
...very next meeting of Labor Party chieftains, Right Wing M.P. William Bourke picked up Evatt's "conspiracy" cry and flung it back at him: "If the conspiracy exists, you have been the leading conspirator . . . You have been, in effect, senior counsel for the Communists." Retorted an Evatt supporter: "If Dr. Evatt walked the Sea of Galilee, you'd say the Communists were holding...
YOUR REPORT OF THE PETROV CASE [TIME, SEPT. 27] CONTAINS A HIGHLY INACCURATE REFERENCE TO ME. YOU STATE THAT PETROV HAD BEEN SUPPLIED WITH SOME VERY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION IN DOCUMENT J "PRE. PARED IN PART WITH INFORMATION PROVIDED BY [LABOR PARTY LEADER HERBERT] EVATT'S TWO PRIVATE SECRETARIES." THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSION HAS STRESSED THAT THE MATTER ALLEGEDLY ATTRIBUTED TO ME WAS NOT OF A CONFIDENTIAL CHARACTER, WHILE THE THREE JUDGES REFERRED TO IT AS "INNOCUOUS" AND FURTHER COMMENT BY TWO OF THEM WAS THAT THERE WAS NO SUGGESTION WHATEVER THAT I HAD BEEN A SOURCE OF INFORMATION...
Then came an even louder thunderclap. Petrov had been provided with some "very confidential" information in a paper called Document J, prepared in part with information provided by Herbert Evatt's two private secretaries. The Royal Commission hastily pointed out that "we do not find anything in this document that reflects on the leader of the opposition." But that did not soothe aroused Herbert Evatt...