Word: evatt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herbert Vere Evatt, leader of Her Majesty's Opposition, former Justice of the High Court, former Minister of External Affairs, bears no taint of Communism or espionage, and he had little need to be involved in the hearings. But whether by design, accident or a perverse combination of both, Herbert Evatt has staked his reputation and his future on a strange and lonely campaign to discredit all that the Royal Commission and the government are attempting...
...with a Flair. In the rowdy game of Australian politics, no man has played with more vigor and flair than Herbert Evatt. A twangy-voiced, clumsily eloquent, self-made man from the New South Wales coal-mine area, he blended a superior mind, a well-nourished ego and a twelve-cylinder ambition into a striking career: he earned the highest marks in the history of Sydney University's law school, scored sensationally as a defense lawyer, wrote eleven books (including an angry defense of Captain Bligh against Hollywood's version of the Mutiny on the Bounty), became King...
...world stage, Evatt was the same dashing, confident performer. Australia had never really had a foreign policy until he swaggered out to speak, usually at great length, for "Austrylia." He negotiated the first test model of the post war regional security pacts (between Australia and New Zealand), and in 1948 was elected president of the U.N. General Assembly...
Labor, thrown out of office in 1949, subsequently chose Evatt to lead its fight to return to power, and he thus became its candidate for Prime Minister. The attempt failed by a nose in last spring's national elections, and left the party sharply divided between pro-and anti-Evatt factions. Just before election came the defection of Soviet Diplomat Vladimir Petrov and his wife (TIME, April...
...corners of the late Labor government. A young ex-reporter named Fergan O'Sullivan confessed before the Royal Commission that he had once written highly personal dossiers on fellow Australian news men at the request of a Russian working for Tass O'Sullivan later had served as Evatt's press secretary...