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...slambang, month-long campaign between Liberal Prime Minister Harold Holt and his opposition challenger, Labor Party Leader Arthur Calwell, has focused the country's attention on the key question of Australia's participation in Viet Nam. Holt, 58, has committed Australian draftees to the war and Australian prestige to the containment of Asian Communism. Calwell, 70, demands an end to the draft, a pullback from Viet Nam and the votes of "600,000 Australian mothers whose boys could die or be wounded in the long, cruel, dirty...
Pacific Man. Prime Minister Holt has done much to sensitize Australia to its new-found Asian responsibilities, since he came to power ten months ago. Holt visited Lyndon Johnson in Washington, dropped in on Australia's 4,500 troops in South Viet Nam, conferred with Saigon's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. At the Manila conference last month, Holt was vigorously visible everywhere. Before that, Johnson helped Holt's election chances mightily with his own brief visit to Sydney...
...Harold Holt is a Pacific man. Indeed, his favorite pastime is diving under the Pacific with snorkel and wet suit to spear fish or enjoy the submarine scenery. Often enough, that scenery includes one or another of his sheilas-in-law-the beautiful wives of his three stepsons. The Sydney-born son of a theatrical manager, Holt was a prize essayist and cricketer at Melbourne University, came to the Australian House of Representatives in 1935 and became a faithful supporter of Sir Robert Menzies during World War II. Like most Australians, Holt enlisted at the outbreak...
...hard-hitting campaign that has taken him all the way from the Snowy Mountains to the pubs of Woolloomooloo, Holt has emphasized Australia's new role in Asia. "At times," he says with deep certainty, "we have been told that we are going American, just as once we were told we were clinging to the skirts of Downing Street. In fact, we're going Australian. We are realizing the importance of being Australian-to play a not-insignificant part in what is happening in this area. It is a welcome opportunity for Australia to establish her own identity...
YANKEE NOMAD by David Douglas Duncan. 480 pages. Holt, Rinenart & Winston...