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	H.V. Evatt Summary
		Evatt was leader of the Opposition for the Labour party during 1951-1960.
		In 1940 Evatt resigned from the High Court to return to politics, and was elected federal MP for the Sydney seat of Barton.
		Evatt believed he was certain to win the 1954 federal elections, and when he unexpectedly failed to do so (despite polling a slight majority of the vote) he blamed the Catholic dominated Industrial Groups in the party for sabotaging his campaign.
	www.bookrags.com /H.V._Evatt (2126 words)

	H. V. Evatt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Evatt was born in Maitland, New South Wales, to a working-class family of Anglo-Irish origin.
		In 1940 Evatt resigned from the High Court to return to politics, and was elected federal MP for the Sydney seat of Barton.
		Evatt believed he was certain to win the 1954 federal elections, and when he unexpectedly failed to do so (despite polling a slight majority of the vote) he blamed the Catholic dominated Industrial Groups in the party for sabotaging his campaign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/H.V._Evatt (1189 words)

	Elizabeth Evatt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Evatt was born in 1933, the daughter of the barrister Clive Evatt QC, and the niece of Justice of the High Court of Australia H.V. Evatt.
		Evatt was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, and went on to study law at the University of Sydney, becoming the first female student to win the University's Medal for Law when she graduated in March 1955.
		Evatt was made an Officer of the Order of Australia on 14 June 1982, and was granted the status of Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's highest civil honour, at the Queen's Birthday honours on 12 June 1995.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Evatt (635 words)

	Evatt, Herbert Vere (Bert) (1894 - 1965) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		EVATT, HERBERT VERE (1894-1965), politician and judge, was born on 30 April 1894 at East Maitland, New South Wales, fifth of eight sons of John Ashmore Evatt, a publican from India, and his Sydney-born wife Jane 'Jeanie' Sophia, née Gray.
		Evatt's verdicts were sometimes preconceived, often pragmatic, and he sought to explore the intent of legislation; he was influenced by decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and by jurists such as Oliver Wendell Holmes and Felix Frankfurter.
		Evatt's journey reinforced his belief that the U.S.A. was careless of his country's national interests and strategic priorities, and convinced him that Australia's prospects were better served by the British alliance, an alliance which to him was compatible with an emphatic assertion of Australian nationalism.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A140124b.htm (4816 words)

	Israel's Creation: The Untold Diplomatic Story - Middle East Forum
		When Evatt became president of the General Assembly, the U.N. was still in its infancy and was invested with a lot of hope and respect by its then democratic majority.
		Although Evatt saw that full internationalization would be very difficult to put into practice and recognized that a war had changed the landscape, he remained committed to the idea of internationalization.
		Evatt, perhaps more than anyone else, was responsible for the partition plan being navigated through the U.N. His role demonstrates the sometimes decisive part played by individuals in affecting the course of history and provides an insight into one of the reasons Jerusalem remains such a vexed issue to this day.
	www.meforum.org /article/629 (862 words)

	Australian Foreign Minister Speech: H V Evatt: Australia's First Internationalist
		Evatt was unusual in that, while he was prepared to accept a high degree of great power domination of the United Nations for a time, he did not see this hegemony based on the War-time alliance continuing indefinitely.
		For Evatt, the UN was to be an agent of collective security, based on the concept that its member states would agree to renounce the use of force amongst themselves and collectively come to the aid of any member attacked by an outside state, or by a renegade member.
		Evatt in fact did foreshadow in his own thinking some of these 'new' concepts in arguing, as he did, at San Francisco for a Charter that paid more than lip service to economic and social issues, not just for their own sake but because these represented the root causes of conflict.
	www.dfat.gov.au /archive/speeches_old/minfor/gemanix.html (5995 words)

	H.V. Evatt hero file
		Evatt successfully contests the Act in the High Court, where it is declared unconstitutional.
		He campaigns tirelessly for the no vote in the referendum seeking to ban the Communist Party of Australia, insisting that the banning of any political ideology was "a definite step towards the police state." The referendum is defeated.
		His input into the formation of the UN was pivotal, ensuring that all members had a role in the General Assembly and that the organisation became involved in the management of economic, social and humanitarian issues.
	www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/evatt.html (666 words)

	J.W. Shaw \| H.V. Evatt's Prizes at Fort Street High School \| Labour History, 86 \| The History Cooperative
		Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965) — Labor leader, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth Attorney General, High Court Justice, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW — was a brilliant scholar, both at Fort Street High School and Sydney University.
		Evatt's study of the Rum Rebellion sought to rescue Governor Bligh from the Hollywood character of the earlier episode of the mutiny on the Bounty.
		Evatt's aim was to 'show how Liberalism's first triumphs were won in Australia over the evils of the irresponsible government and the early convictism'.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/86/shaw.html (1235 words)

	The Undercover Zionist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Evatt was additionally a man of contradictions, both an idealist and schemer.
		Evatt insisted on his committee completing its work and recommending partition so the General Assembly could put it to a vote before the end of the 1947 General Assembly session.
		Kirchwey and Evatt were very close and Kirchwey's papers, now deposited at Harvard, show that she interceded often and strenuously with Evatt to support Zionism at different points.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=21510 (1676 words)

	Past imperfect, present tense - www.theage.com.au
		In 1937, in preparation for his presentation of that year's Macrossan Memorial Lectures, Justice H.V. Evatt, chairman of the board of the Mitchell Library, in Sydney, immersed himself in the Macarthur papers and reconsidered Macarthur's insurrection against governor William Bligh.
		Evatt was the first to say roundly in public that John Macarthur was a scoundrel".
		Evatt had recognised the partial, incomplete state of earlier historical representations that had too readily cast Bligh as the coloniser villain against the entrepreneurial advances of the local hero Macarthur; an easy dichotomy much assisted by the popular cinematic fiction in Charles Laughton's portrayal of an unattractive and singularly unpleasant Bligh.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/08/27/1061663846149.html (1139 words)

	AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: The Labor Split - 50 years on - 9 April 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Evatt's attack caused widespread consternation among the Labor Party rank and file for whom the successes of the Industrial Groups in the fight against communism was a source of considerable pride.
		Evatt insisted on appearing before the subsequent Petrov Royal Commission until the judge-commissioners terminated his leave to appear because of his outlandish and unfounded accusations about the circumstances surrounding the Petrov defections.
		The hypocrisy of Evatt's attack upon the Movement and Bob Santamaria is evident from the fact that it was the ALP leadership itself which had originally sought the assistance of Santamaria when it became obvious to them that the Communist Party was posing a real threat to the integrity of the ALP.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2005apr09_alp.html (2884 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		Evatt was elected president of the UN General Assembly in 1948 when the UN adopted the Universal Declaration on Human Rights which is generally regarded as the source of subsequent human rights instruments, such as the 1996 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
		The differences in the views of Evatt and Menzies on the function of the UN were revealed during the Suez crisis in 1956.
		Evatt, on the other hand, maintained that enforcement action by Britain and France should not be taken without the UN's approval.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20050603.F05 (952 words)

	Law and Justice Foundation - `Doc` - A Portrait of Herbert Vere Evatt - Lessons for Today`s Politicians
		Today's Australian politicians could learn from the life of Dr H V Evatt that sticking to fundamental principles is more important than bending their policies to transient opinion polls and that Australia should offer the world the path of internationalism as the alternative to destructive nationalism.
		Justice Kirby also pointed out that Dr Evatt had fought the communism referendum in 1951, and won, despite all the opinion polls which told him that his cause was hopeless and doomed to failure.
		Evatt may have been a difficult man. But he knew that in the end, history would vindicate adherence to principle.
	www.lawfoundation.net.au /ljf/app/&id=B19B7B6A998D8AC4CA2571A800188019 (1024 words)

	Evatt Foundation: Publication: In defence of Dr Herbert Vere Evatt - 02 February 2005
		"Evatt's record as a civil libertarian is very spotty", claiming elsewhere in his comments that "Evatt's reputation was energetically burnished as a defender of free expression, a slayer of intolerant Catholic sectarianism and a demolisher of secret and sinister Catholic conspiracies to seize control of the Labor Party...".
		John Curtin was hobbled with a divided labour movement (three Labor parties in NSW) and the left-right struggles inside the ALP for the 'socialist objective', and was thus reluctant to challenge the disintegrating flotsam and jetsam in the conservative side of politics in Canberra.
		It was to defend Dr Evatt from his detractors, to defend his honour and reputation and to put that era of 'interference in Labor affairs' into its proper historical perspective.
	evatt.labor.net.au /publications/papers/132.html (13488 words)

	How significant was the contribution of H.V. (Doc) Evatt to the development of Australian foreign policy?
		Yet Evatt, being the lawyer that he was, felt he could not bring the changes needed for the war effort without the proper support of the constitution.
		Evatt saw that while Australia was directly affected by events in Europe, it's stake in the Pacific was paramount.
		Although Evatt was able to claim victory on the communist referendum in the 50's, Robert Menzies was too easily able to exploit Evatt's shortcomings, and he retired dispirited from politics.
	www.klarbooks.com /academic/evatt.html (3137 words)

	The Hon Justice Michael Kirby's Opening Address - S H Ervin Gallery
		But whereas Bert Evatt's world was one of politics, deals and law and compromise, Mary Alice lived, for the most part, in a kinder world involving a quest for beauty.
		It is appropriate that in 1990, the Evatt Foundation decided to provide an annual art award in the name of Mary Alice Evatt for the best final year student art work chosen from the students' exhibition at the University of Western Sydney.
		Mrs Evatt once spoke over the radio in Hobart in support of H V Evatt's referendum campaign for amendment of the Australian Constitution in August 1944.
	www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au /mkirby.html (3260 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		In the end, Evatt came to be devoted to the creation of a Jewish homeland.
		His exhaustive detail is edifying, but it obfuscates the exploration of Evatt’s role and motivation in both pushing the partition plan and shepherding through the U.N. a vote on the internationalization of Jerusalem.
		While Mandel is correct to emphasize the contemporary importance of the partitioning of Palestine, his decision to extend his discussion through the Oslo peace process dilutes the focus on what is otherwise a useful contribution to the history of Israel’s founding.
	www.aei.org /publications/filter.all,pubID.24031/pub_detail.asp (351 words)

	HERBERT VERE EVATT - 3rd Session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Herbert Vere Evatt, President of the third regular session of the General Assembly, has had a distinguished career in national and international affairs.
		Evatt graduated in 1917 at the University of Sydney and was admitted to the Australian Bar, obtaining his of Law in 1924.
		In 1930, at the age of 36, he became the youngest High Court Judge in the history of the British Empire, a position which he resigned in 1940, on being elected to the Federal Legislature.
	www.un.org /ga/55/president/bio03.htm (300 words)

	A CENTENARY REFLECTION ON THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION: THE REPUBLIC REFERENDUM, 1999
		Another hero of the 1950s and 60s, the Labor Party leader, Dr H V Evatt was as insistent that Australia was a "British nation" involved in a special family relationship with the United Kingdom[1].
		Like Menzies, Evatt regarded the monarchy as a source of beneficence and an instrument for the good governance of a free society[2].
		cf The Commonwealth v Mewett (1997) 191 CLR 471 at 546 citing Johntone v The Commonwealth (1979) 143 CLR 398 at 406.
	www.hcourt.gov.au /speeches/kirbyj/kirbyj_menzies.htm#_ftn10 (8343 words)

	Herbert Vere Evatt - Encyclopedia.com
		He became (1940) a Labor member of the House of Representatives, before being appointed (1941) attorney general and then minister of foreign affairs.
		During World War II, Evatt was the Australian member of the Pacific War Council and a delegate to the UN Conference in 1945, where he championed the rights of the smaller nations and urged international control of atomic energy.
		Commonwealthmen and Republicans: Dr. H.V. Evatt, the Monarchy and India(1).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Evatt-He.html (298 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Evatt,
		Evatt, Herbert Vere A Dictionary of World History...
		Noted for his championship of the rights of the smaller nations, and for greater independence from Britain, Evatt presided over the UN...
		During World War II, Evatt was the Australian member of the Pacific War Council and a delegate to the UN...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Evatt, (395 words)

	LEURALLA - Australia's Dr H.V. Evatt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dr Evatt's brilliant and controversial career was as lawyer, author, High Court Judge, Attorney General, Minister for External Affairs, President of the UN General Assembly and Federal Leader of the Opposition.
		In 1948 Dr Evatt was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.
		His career is remembered with a permanent photographic exhibition in the Doc Evatt Memorial Room at the NSW Toy and Railway Museum at Leuralla.
	www.toyandrailwaymuseum.com.au /leuralla-australia'sdrevat.html (184 words)

	Evatt House / Accommodation / University Services / The University of Newcastle, Australia
		Evatt House is one of four of the University's residences on-campus and one of two self-catered residences.
		Founded in 1990, it takes its name from Justice Elizabeth Evatt, a former Chancellor of the University, and Dr H V Evatt, the former politician and statesman who began his studies at one of the local high schools in the Maitland area.
		The primary function of Evatt House is to provide a living environment conducive for residents to meet both their academic and personal needs.
	www.newcastle.edu.au /service/accommodation/on-campus/evatt/index.html (304 words)

	Labor, religion and a little history - Opinion - www.theage.com.au
		Or was Evatt's a rational, perhaps inevitable, response to the predations of a predominantly Catholic faction in the ALP, which had become the Trojan horse for B.A. Santamaria's secretive Catholic lay organisation, "the Movement"?
		Recent research supports the view that by the 1950s, emboldened by the Movement's successes in combating communists in the trade unions and the ALP, Santamaria harboured ambitions to control Labor for religious-inspired ends.
		What is incontrovertible is that the aftershocks of Evatt's statement were calamitous, nowhere more so than in Victoria.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/10/05/1096949506298.html (970 words)

	Bokkilden Â» H.V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel - Daniel Mandel
		OmtaleThis book reveals the fascinating story of the involvement of the Australian statesman, Dr. H V Evatt, in the United Nations decision to partition Palestine-a decision that paved the way for the establishment of Israel six months later.
		It unravels the complex interplay of motives and pressures in the shadow of an emerging Cold War that resulted in Evatt's pivotal role at a decisive moment that changed the face of the modern Middle East.
		The narrative focuses on the enigmatic background and character of Evatt's involvement in the Palestinian drama: the personalities that influenced him and the reason for his sometimes seemingly inexplicable conduct that intrigued historians and contemporaries.
	www.bokkilden.no /SamboWeb/produkt.do?produktId=1538272&rom=MP (317 words)

	Paul Strangio \| Young, ambitious and eager' : Stan Keon and the Victorian Public Service Association \| Labour History, ...
		Even Chifley's successor, H.V. Evatt, despite the vexation Keon had caused him as leader, nominated him as one of the three most able members of the Labor Caucus during an April 1954 conversation with B.A. Santamaria.
		Evatt famously remarked of him: 'When I hear Keon talking I can smell the faggots burning'.
		Elsewhere Santamaria insinuates that Evatt's profligate flattery and promises during the private conversations they held prior to the May 1954 election were cynically designed to guarantee the Industrial Group's political support.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/87/strangio.html (9793 words)

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