Word: whitlam
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...flag; he heard the familiar strains of God Save the Queen fade out when O Canada became the national anthem. Now based in Australia, Ogle is again witness to a growing spirit of nationalism in another Commonwealth nation. The new mood Down Under has been fostered largely by Gough Whitlam, Australia's first Labor Party Prime Minister in 23 years and-as Ogle discovered -a hard man to interview. After doggedly trailing the Prime Minister, who could not find a break in his busy schedule, Ogle finally decided to camp on Whitlam's doorstep. He was rewarded...
...Whitlam could squeeze me in," Ogle reports, "only because a diplomat from one of the Southeast Asian countries had not shown up." The interview that followed was the first that Whitlam had given to any correspondent, foreign or Australian, since taking office. Ogle's report on Whitlam and the new course he has set for his nation is the basis of this week's World story, written in New York by Associate Editor Edwin Bolwell, who has a special affection for Australia. He was born and lived there for 25 years...
...December's election, a high U.S. Administration official was discussing the change with an Australian visitor. "Tell me," he asked, "what's this new Prime Minister of yours like-this fellow White-law?" The visitor had barely finished pointing out that the fellow's name was Whitlam when he was confronted by an inquisitive State Department expert. More interested in learning something about other members of the new Australian Cabinet, the expert remarked: "I've already met your two top men-Mr. Gough and Mr. Whitlam...
...promises to be a busy intermission, filled with diplomatic talk and travel. Australia's outward-looking new Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, for instance, is due in Djakarta the end of this month to discuss expansion of a bilateral defense agreement with Indonesia. Doubtless he will also lobby for his own dream of a new nonmilitary alliance of Asian and Pacific nations, including China...
James owes his freedom to the budding cordiality between China and the Labor Government of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, an old schoolmate of James's who has been lobbying privately for his release for over a year. Too weak to offer more than cursory details of his imprisonment, James did tell a journalist friend that the Chinese had accused him of spying for Russia. "James signed five or six absurd, fairy-tale confessions," reported the Australian's Gregory Clark, who also characterized James's stay in China as "three years of constant interrogation and solitary confinement...