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Article: A good international citizen: H.V. Evatt, Britain, the United Nations and Israel, 1948-49.
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- Middle Eastern Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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Dr H.V. Evatt, Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Labor government, presided over Australian foreign policy at a critical juncture in the history of his nation, the British Empire and international relations. Assertion of distinctively Australian interests coincided with the evolution of the Empire into a Commonwealth of Nations, the emergence of the Cold War, and the development of a world body and an international jurisprudence aimed at preventing a recurrence of global conflict. Personally active in framing the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco Conference in 1945 and a recognized champion of the ...