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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...
...unlikely that anybody in Washington would make either faux pas these days, for Gough (rhymes with cough) Whitlam is stirring things up more than any Australian leader in years. Until recently, Australia resembled a sort of waltzing Matilda, content to glide through life on the strong arm of a big, steady date. To her escort-first Britain, then the U.S.-she was complaisant, undemanding and faithful. In short, Australia could be taken for granted, and often was. No more. The waltz is ended. Australia has started to rock, and to a beat that is her own. To the dismay...
Just a Start. Within 30 minutes of his swearing-in ceremony, Whitlam set the whirlwind tone for a new, independent-minded Australia by announcing the abolition of the military draft, introduced in 1964 to supply Australian troops for the war in Viet Nam. That was just a start. In foreign affairs, a Cabinet portfolio that he gave himself, Whitlam quickly took a whole series of moves to make Australia's stance "less militarily oriented and not open to suggestions of racism...