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Siegfried Sassoon - mad, sad or heroically confused?
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To us his anti-war poems and his sensational protest seem
sanity itself, but the War Office papers, released yesterday, said
he was mad. What is certainly true, says Ross Davies, is that he
spent his whole life fighting his nightmares.
The War Office, according to his army file released by the
Public Record Office today, considered him "a lunatic" . Why else
would he have had a protest against the war read out in the
Commons? His men called him Mad Jack, because of his recklessness
in the trenches, where he was recommended for a Victoria Cross.
Wilfred Owen and Edmund Blunden who went ...
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Dr H.V. Evatt--part one: a question of sanity.(Herbert Vere Evatt )
Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
; ...Hawke Government, noted of Dr H.V. Evatt (1894-1965), High Court judge (1930...examination of the public career of Dr Evatt. The first part, entitled "A Question of Sanity", analyses the synergy between Evatt's personal and political pathology from...
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Dr H.V. Evatt--part II: the question of loyalty.(Herbert Vere Evatt)(Report)
Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
; ...1) focuses on a question that haunted Evatt's political career during the Cold War...publicly professed this belief. (2) Evatt and the case of Egon Kisch In November...acted for Kisch. (In 1951, Smith briefed Evatt for the anti-Communist referendum...
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Commonwealthmen and Republicans: Dr. H.V. Evatt, the Monarchy and India(1).
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
; ...French Revolution: A History(2) Herbert Vere Evatt (1894-1965) remains one of the...aspect of his life and work.(3) Evatt rose to the heights of the legal...Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. Evatt is remembered outside Australia...
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Looking back on Evatt and the split.(History)
Magazine article from: Quadrant
; ...alternative prime minister of Australia, Dr Herbert Vere Evatt, issued a press statement that tore his own...community. The commentator Alan Reid called it "Dr Evatt's Hydrogen Bomb". Evatt made an existing problem a dozen times worse...
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In this issue.(Editorial comment)
Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
; ...political history. In "Dr H.V. Evatt--Part II: The question of loyalty...so-subtle connections between Herbert Vere Evatt (one of the icons of the Labor...article to raise new questions about Evatt and his departmental head, Dr John...
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Unfinished business: John Metcalfe and his professional association.
Magazine article from: The Australian Library Journal
; ...has a chat with an aide to Dr Herbert Vere Evatt. Now deputy leader of the Federal opposition, Evatt is also President of the Library...subversive activities. We know now that Evatt's aide, as well as Evatt himself...
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Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
; ...the unfortunately unbalanced Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt. On any view, therefore, Mannix...time the Labor Party leader, Dr. Evatt, developed an intention to take...Communist connexions with members of Evatt's staff) Evatt's behaviour...
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Courrier des lecteurs: lignes directrices constitutionnelles pour guider le gouverneur general.(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Revue parlementaire canadienne
; ...modernes de l'Empire et du Commonwealth, le juge Herbert Vere Evatt, en 1936, et le professeur Zelman Cowen (devenu plus...spectaculaire en Australie en 1975. La proposition Evatt-Cowen n'a pas eu de suite, pour des raisons que...
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Constitutional Guidelines for a Governor General in Minority Government Situations.(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Canadian Parliamentary Review
; ...Commonwealth constitutionalists of modern times, Justice Herbert Vere Evatt in 1936, and Professor Zelman Cowen (later Governor...would recur spectacularly in Australia in 1975. The Evatt-Cowen proposal has not been acted upon, for reasons...
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Australian governor general to arrive for first visit by head of state today
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...pivotal role in the establishment of the state of Israel and its admission to the United Nations. Australian statesman Herbert Vere Evatt, as chairman of the United Nations ad hoc committee on then- Palestine, influenced the passing of the resolution...
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