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...mysterious bunyip, the legendary beastie that lives at the bottom of the placid Australian billabong, is less strange to Australians than Herbert Vere Evatt. A shaggy intellectual who leaped zestfully from the High Court bench into the labor political swamp in 1940, Evatt was Minister of External Affairs in three successive Labor governments, was once (1948) president of the U.N. General Assembly, and was long a man expected by many to become Prime Minister. But Herbert Evatt's public popularity and political power have been shaking apart since Australia's Petrov spy case broke early last year, just...
Honest Witness. No one accused tousled Herbert Evatt of any Communist affiliations or pro-Communist leanings. Still, he exploded like an enraged bull before a royal commission that set out to investigate the Petrov revelations (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954), and even questioned the motives of the commission itself when it ruled unanimously last August that Petrov was an honest witness...
Many were astonished at Evatt's tactics, for royal commissions are highly respected institutions in the Commonwealth countries. But Australians were even more astonished last week when Herbert Evatt revealed that he had written to Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov asking whether the Petrov documents, with their proof of energetic Soviet espionage, were valid. Said Evatt: "I duly received a reply which informed me that the documents given to the Australian authorities by Petrov 'can only be . . . falsification, fabricated on the instructions of persons interested in the deterioration of Soviet-Australian relations and in discrediting their political opponents...
Behind the issue was the widespread Australian fear, stated by Labor Leader Herbert Evatt, that "the southward expansion policy of Japan is gradually, being resumed." This month the Tokyo Giants baseball team called off its Australian tour, complaining that it was "virtually boycotted." Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, trying to negotiate trade agreements with the Japanese Government, has frequently complained that "the greatest stumbling block is the perpetuation of enmity." Said Menzies wearily: "You only have to mention the word Japanese for it to be worth three headlines...
...adroit maneuvering, Evatt managed to postpone the showdown until this week. But whether the vote went for or against Dr. Evatt, the chief loser would be the Labor Party as a whole. Said a well-pleased Cabinet minister of the Liberal government: "We've never been so well in the saddle in 30 years...