Word: evatt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Menzies faced a difficult time, the Laborites had their troubles too. Right-wing Laborites (mostly Roman Catholic) have long criticized Party Leader Herbert Evatt, 64, for his easygoing attitude toward Communists in unions. They formed their own splinter group, the Democratic Labor Party...
...summer Saturday down under, 5,000,000 Australians, many in sport clothes, swim suits and fishing boots, went to the polls as the law requires. Within hours after the polls closed, Labor Leader Herbert Evatt sourly acknowledged defeat: "The government's plan to sneak back into power apparently succeeded . . ." Actually, rather than sneaking back, Prime Minister Robert Menzies' Liberal-Country Party coalition won a House of Representatives majority twice as large as its previous...
...margin of victory was a measure of Australia's disillusion with Labor's Dr. Evatt, whose reputation has suffered ever since some of his aides were mentioned in the Petrov spy case. It was the third general election lost by Evatt, and it put his continued leadership of the Labor Party in serious doubt. There was even a chance that, when final results were in, Evatt would lose his own seat in Parliament...
...will find it significant," said Menzies, that Evatt "should now propound a defense policy which is unreal and defeatist and which will be received with enthusiasm only by the Communists and those who support them." In Melbourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop Daniel Mannix, a Catholic Action leader, added: "If the foreign policy of certain leaders is any indication, the Communist rot has begun to set in here...
...Smears a Day. While his Iowa-born wife campaigned in his own critical Sydney electorate, Laborite Evatt stumped the country in a sweat-stained hat and rumpled suit, screeching defiance. Said he: "The championship of smearing has passed from Senator McCarthy to the Prime Minister. His election motto is ten smears a day to keep the doctor at bay." But wherever he went, the cry of "Molotov" brought shouts of laughter from his audience. Evatt attacked the Communist Party as "totalitarian in method and antidemocratic in character." But as fast as he shed his red feathers, the Communists stuck them...