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...Prime Minister's vagueness could not hide one fact: an Empire family party was in the making. Also in London -or on the way-were Australia's External Affairs Minister Herbert Vere Evatt, New Zealand's Paddy Webb, South Africa's Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hendrick Hofmeyr. Like Mackenzie King, they were admittedly intent on gaining for Britain's Dominions an effective voice in the writing of the peace. It looked as if four lobbyists were about to turn on the pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: The Traveler | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Australia's hulking, tireless Herbert Vere Evatt led the small and middle nations' fight, as he had at San Francisco. When the Italian treaty came before the Council of Five (for the U.S., Byrnes; for Britain, Bevin; for Russia, Molotov; for France, Bidault; for China, Wang Shih-chieh), Evatt insisted that all the nations that had fought Italy have a say. Russia surprisingly agreed that invitations to speak before the Council be granted to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Russia's friends, Yugoslavia and Poland and the Soviet Republics of the Ukraine and White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: This Is the Peace | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...mouse, Australia's rip-snorting Herbert Vere Evatt said that the Big Five interpretation was narrower than a version given previously by Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with huggin'). Britain's Professor Charles Kingsley Webster said that Sir Alexander made a mistake because New Zealand's Peter Fraser caught him by surprise with a question. Fraser retorted that Cadogan had checked the transcript of the answer with him. Snapped Fraser to Webster: "Don't try to slide out by making misstatements. What you are doing is dishonest." U.S. Senator Tom Connally, who was presiding, got Fraser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONFERENCE: Of Mice & Lions | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

Australia's Herbert Vere Evatt still clamored that the Big Five had "steamrollered" the veto issue. But Big Power spokesmen pointed out that five out of the six small nations on the Council could exercise a veto, too-if they stood together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONFERENCE: Harry Fixed It | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...editor of the London Times H. de Vere Stacpoole wrote: "Sir: What are powerless politics, and how do they function and what do they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Speech | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

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