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...Australia's Minister for External (Foreign) Affairs, Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, who had just arrived in Washington from Australia, translated this disparity in ominous terms: "This week Port Moresby experienced its 106th air raid when 100 Japanese planes attacked the garrison. . . . The heaviest attack yet made on Rabaul by [Allied] forces of the Southwest Pacific Area has consisted of 37 aircraft...
Baldwin also reported that Australian labor was loafing on its war job. Army Minister Francis Forde, Foreign Minister Herbert Evatt erupted, denounced Baldwin, denied his charges. General MacArthur, incidentally disowning any political ambitions (see p. 21), duly announced he had received the utmost cooperation. But informed observers judged Baldwin was not far wrong, guessed the recent improvement of news from New Guinea, including the Allies' recapture of the Jap base at Kokoda, was one sign that Douglas MacArthur was already solving some very serious internal problems. If this was true, Washington had one good reason (among...
...very satisfactory beginning," said Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs...
...realization that Australia's present plight, and future welfare, are problems which once concerned Britain and Australia, but which are now primarily the concern of the U.S. and Australia. With the Japanese massing for invasion, the Australians were desperate. If tough, blunt talk was needed, burly Herbert Vere Evatt, Minister for External Affairs, was the man to make it. Curtin dispatched him to Washington to plead Australia's case on the brief prepared by Casey...
...that the Pacific War Council should be in Washington. It was "a matter of some regret, after 95 days of Japan's staggering advance south, ever south," that Australia had not yet obtained "firsthand contact with America." Accordingly, he announced that Minister of External Affairs Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt was being sent to Washington. A great leftist authority on constitutional law who lectured at Harvard in 1938, tough-tongued Minister Evatt should be able to make Prime Minister Curtin's message stick...