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...mouse, Australia's rip-snorting Herbert Vere Evatt said that the Big Five interpretation was narrower than a version given previously by Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with huggin'). Britain's Professor Charles Kingsley Webster said that Sir Alexander made a mistake because New Zealand's Peter Fraser caught him by surprise with a question. Fraser retorted that Cadogan had checked the transcript of the answer with him. Snapped Fraser to Webster: "Don't try to slide out by making misstatements. What you are doing is dishonest." U.S. Senator Tom Connally, who was presiding, got Fraser...
...Committee on Structure & Procedures had quite a week. But there could be only one result: the Committee voted 30-to-2 (with 15 eloquently abstaining) to accept the Yalta formula as interpreted by the Big Five. On the critical test - an amendment by Evatt - the "blocs" split wide open. The Empire went neatly into thirds: Australia and New Zealand voted against the Big Five formula; Britain and South Africa voted for it; Canada and India abstained. Only five Latin Americans stuck with the U.S. Even Iran, which has played close to Russia, voted against the Big Five...
Australia's Herbert Vere Evatt still clamored that the Big Five had "steamrollered" the veto issue. But Big Power spokesmen pointed out that five out of the six small nations on the Council could exercise a veto, too-if they stood together...
...else. Washington's colony of little-nation diplomats fell into the nether pits of gloom. Parisians heard that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, selected last week to head France's delegation to San Francisco, first learned of the deal from his morning newspaper. Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, in the U.S. on his way to London for a preliminary Empire conference, was astounded and enraged. All the dominions knew that Russia had asked for three votes, but not that the U.S. had consented or decided to demand three for itself. British officialdom seemed to be in a similar...
Peter Fraser preceded Curtin to Washington last week. In a way, both were already known there-Fraser through his able, popular Minister Walter Nash, who has been recalled to home duty in Auckland; Curtin through his aggressive, ambitious External Affairs Minister, Dr. Herbert Evatt, who has twice visited and often spoken...