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Herbert Vere Evatt, leader of Her Majesty's Opposition, former Justice of the High Court, former Minister of External Affairs, bears no taint of Communism or espionage, and he had little need to be involved in the hearings. But whether by design, accident or a perverse combination of both, Herbert Evatt has staked his reputation and his future on a strange and lonely campaign to discredit all that the Royal Commission and the government are attempting...
...with a Flair. In the rowdy game of Australian politics, no man has played with more vigor and flair than Herbert Evatt. A twangy-voiced, clumsily eloquent, self-made man from the New South Wales coal-mine area, he blended a superior mind, a well-nourished ego and a twelve-cylinder ambition into a striking career: he earned the highest marks in the history of Sydney University's law school, scored sensationally as a defense lawyer, wrote eleven books (including an angry defense of Captain Bligh against Hollywood's version of the Mutiny on the Bounty), became King...
...press secretary to Australia's Labor Party leader, Herbert V. Evatt. young (26) ex-Reporter Fergan O'Sullivan achieved public and private recognition on the same day two months ago. In public, Australian newsmen voted to give him a silver mug for his help to the press during the Labor Party's unsuccessful election campaign this spring. In private, the government subpoenaed him to appear before an Australian royal commission investigating Soviet espionage...
...Indo-China might be as remote as Timbuktu." Yet Communism may have been the issue that kept Bob Menzies in power. The arrest of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov and the rescue of his wife (TIME, April 26) gave the Liberals a readymade chance to revive their hoary cry: that Evatt and his party are on the same side as the Reds. To his audiences, Menzies quoted a Communist document instructing the comrades "to deliver the main attack on the Menzies government." Said Menzies: "Now we know what side the Communists...
...Seats. Desperately, the Labor Party fought to shake itself free from the unwelcome Communist leeches. Evatt was especially worried because his party depends on the large Catholic vote in Australia's big cities. "I tell Menzies and his agents," cried Evatt, in righteous anger, "that if they impute to me ... any sympathy with Communism, they are the vilest liars in the world...