H.V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover ZionistThe Minister for External Affairs, and the dominant force in the formation of Australian foreign policy for a crucial decade in the battle over Palestine (1941-1949), Herbert Vere Evatt played a central role in the Australian political response to Zionism and the conflict in Palestine. This book, which uses a variety of primary sources from Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States, provides a valuable study of Evatt the Zionist, as well as illuminating a fascinating political figure. This valuable book charts the debate in Australia over the creation of a Jewish state as well as providing a genuinely entertaining study of Evatt himself. |
Contents
A Wild Colonial Boy | 1 |
A Rigorous System of Suppression | 25 |
Questions of Colour and Groups of Nations | 48 |
Explain the Whole Thing to Evatt | 71 |
A Test of Our Powers and Our Independence | 86 |
A Narrow Line | 97 |
Gravest Challenge Yet to Nations | 112 |
What Would You Do About Palestine? | 125 |
The Use of Force Would Not be Actively Opposed | 188 |
Position is Being Watched Sympathetically | 197 |
As Inevitable as it is Just | 217 |
It is a Matter of Degree | 234 |
More Pious than Pius | 257 |
Conclusion | 273 |
Select Bibliography | 287 |
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Naturally I Am Taking a Purely Objective View | 140 |
Intrigues Directed Against the Jewish People | 159 |
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