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YOUR REPORT OF THE PETROV CASE [TIME, SEPT. 27] CONTAINS A HIGHLY INACCURATE REFERENCE TO ME. YOU STATE THAT PETROV HAD BEEN SUPPLIED WITH SOME VERY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION IN DOCUMENT J "PRE. PARED IN PART WITH INFORMATION PROVIDED BY [LABOR PARTY LEADER HERBERT] EVATT'S TWO PRIVATE SECRETARIES." THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSION HAS STRESSED THAT THE MATTER ALLEGEDLY ATTRIBUTED TO ME WAS NOT OF A CONFIDENTIAL CHARACTER, WHILE THE THREE JUDGES REFERRED TO IT AS "INNOCUOUS" AND FURTHER COMMENT BY TWO OF THEM WAS THAT THERE WAS NO SUGGESTION WHATEVER THAT I HAD BEEN A SOURCE OF INFORMATION...
...world stage, Evatt was the same dashing, confident performer. Australia had never really had a foreign policy until he swaggered out to speak, usually at great length, for "Austrylia." He negotiated the first test model of the post war regional security pacts (between Australia and New Zealand), and in 1948 was elected president of the U.N. General Assembly...
Labor, thrown out of office in 1949, subsequently chose Evatt to lead its fight to return to power, and he thus became its candidate for Prime Minister. The attempt failed by a nose in last spring's national elections, and left the party sharply divided between pro-and anti-Evatt factions. Just before election came the defection of Soviet Diplomat Vladimir Petrov and his wife (TIME, April...
...corners of the late Labor government. A young ex-reporter named Fergan O'Sullivan confessed before the Royal Commission that he had once written highly personal dossiers on fellow Australian news men at the request of a Russian working for Tass O'Sullivan later had served as Evatt's press secretary...
Then came an even louder thunderclap. Petrov had been provided with some "very confidential" information in a paper called Document J, prepared in part with information provided by Herbert Evatt's two private secretaries. The Royal Commission hastily pointed out that "we do not find anything in this document that reflects on the leader of the opposition." But that did not soothe aroused Herbert Evatt...