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Australia's Minister for External Affairs Evatt, who tried to unite the nations of the United Nations Organization instead of divide them for the next...
...Prime Minister's vagueness could not hide one fact: an Empire family party was in the making. Also in London -or on the way-were Australia's External Affairs Minister Herbert Vere Evatt, New Zealand's Paddy Webb, South Africa's Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hendrick Hofmeyr. Like Mackenzie King, they were admittedly intent on gaining for Britain's Dominions an effective voice in the writing of the peace. It looked as if four lobbyists were about to turn on the pressure...
...Byrnes. Said he: such a proposal was not on the Foreign Ministers' agenda, and therefore he was not prepared to discuss it. Thoroughly angered at Molotov on other points, Britain's Bevin at first sided with Byrnes. But the Dominions, headed by Australia's bellicose Herbert Evatt, immediately subjected Bevin to such pressure that Byrnes found himself standing alone against everybody else...
Australia's hulking, tireless Herbert Vere Evatt led the small and middle nations' fight, as he had at San Francisco. When the Italian treaty came before the Council of Five (for the U.S., Byrnes; for Britain, Bevin; for Russia, Molotov; for France, Bidault; for China, Wang Shih-chieh), Evatt insisted that all the nations that had fought Italy have a say. Russia surprisingly agreed that invitations to speak before the Council be granted to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Russia's friends, Yugoslavia and Poland and the Soviet Republics of the Ukraine and White...
...reasoned, and the way to recognize that fact was by a Big Four presidium which would confine effective discussion to the controlling powers. The Russians never gave up on this issue. But, thanks to Ed Stettinius, Senator Vandenberg and such little-nation spokesmen as Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, they never...