Word: evatt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classified treaty had given the information to the Reds. In Parliament later, Australia's foreign minister, Richard Casey, admitted the leak. (Although Casey denied the connection, members' questions pointed to one John Burton, a former top official under Casey's Laborite predecessor, Herbert V. Evatt. Burton last spring led a delegation of fellow travelers to Red China's "Pacific Peace Conference...
Although alert to the Red threat, the Australian people, in his opinion, show none of the hysteria Tipping finds in the United States. A constitutional amendment to outlaw the Communist Party was opposed by none other than Herbert Evatt, first president of the General Assembly. "Evatt risked political suicide by defending the Reds' rights, but the amendment was roundly defeated by the people...
Australia's Labor Party, led by ex-Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Evatt, charged that the amendment threatened civil liberties, and led a heated campaign against it. Last week, in a nationwide referendum, Australians rejected the amendment. Said Menzies: "I'm going to have one hand tied behind my back in my fight against Communism. [But] I intend to keep on fighting...
...Evatt Gave Lectures...
Given under the auspices of the Law School, the lecture series is made possible every three years by a bequest of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, former Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In 1946 the lectures were given by Herbert Evatt, then the foreign minister of Australia and that country's representative on the Security Council of the United Nations...