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...last Doc Evatt has done something for his party," growled an Australian Laborite M.P. In the raucous and rowdy warfare of Australian politics, spades are called bloody shovels, and Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt is sometimes called worse. Last week, at 65, Doc Evatt ended his rambunctious political career by accepting appointment by the New South Wales Labor premier as chief justice of the state supreme court. This proud, stubborn, able, unpredictable barrister is remembered in the U.S. as the Australian Foreign Minister who took a leading part in launching the U.N. and served as president of its General Assembly...
Taking over the leadership in 1951 at the death of ex-Prime Minister Ben Chifley, Evatt was immediately caught up in a bitter sectarian fight between Communists and Catholic Actionists inside the labor movement. When the Soviet Embassy defector Vladimir Petrov named two Evatt secretaries as accomplices in espionage (they were later cleared), Evatt appeared as their lawyer, thereby alienating the immigrant vote (many are refugees from Communism). Turning on the Catholic Actionists, Evatt antagonized many of the Irish Catholics who traditionally vote Labor. Conservative Robert Menzies has won a decisive victory in the last three elections...
...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...