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Article: RESCUED FROM THE RABBIT BURROW.(Australia's policy toward part-Aboriginal children)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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UNDERSTANDING THE "STOLEN GENERATION"
IN NOVEMBER 1948 Whittaker Chambers carefully secreted some microfilm in a pumpkin on his small farm in Maryland, for safe keeping. The microfilm had survived from the late 1930s and it contained evidence which in due course convinced a jury that Alger Hiss was guilty of perjury. That pumpkin and the microfilm it contained became a symbol of a strongly contested reality: the penetration during the 1930s and 1940s of the highest levels of US government by Soviet agents. The US liberal establishment rallied behind Alger Hiss and although the evidence that led to his conviction was, to our contemporary eyes, overwhelming, ...
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