H. V. Evatt
Herbert Vere Evatt ( born April 30, 1894 in East Maitland, † November 2, 1965 in Canberra) was an Australian politician, diplomat and author. He was both justice and foreign minister of his country, as well as chairman of the Australian Labor Party and President of the UN General Assembly.
Life
At the University of Sydney studied Evatt English, mathematics and philosophy. In 1918 he was admitted to the bar in 1924 and he received his doctorate in Sydney for the Doctor of Law. At about the same time, he joined the laboratory a party and was elected to Parliament in 1925, the New South Wales province. In 1930 he was appointed to date, the youngest member of the High Court of Australia.
In 1940 he left that to become a member of the Australian Parliament. In 1941 he was justice minister and foreign minister in the Labor government of John Curtin.
As such, he took part in the 1945 conference in San Francisco and signed the United Nations Charter for Australia there. In 1946, he led the Australian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. 1946 took over Evatt in addition to his ministerial offices, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
He was from 1946 to 1948 head of the Australian delegation at the UN, in the third session of 1948 he was President of the UN General Assembly. He also led the UN Atomic Energy Commission and the Palestinians conference.
After the end of the Labor government in 1949, he remained deputy chairman laboratory and took over after the death of Ben Chifleys the party presidency, and the role of the opposition leader, a position he held until 1960.
Honors
After Evatt are the suburb Evatt of Australia's capital Canberra as well as the Evatt Foundation, one of the Australian Labor Party a related institute of political science, named.
Works (selection)
- The Royal Prerogative, 1930
- The King and His Dominion Governors, 1936
- Rum Rebellion: A Study of the Overthrow of Governor Bligh by John Macarthur and the New South Wales Corps, 1943
- The United Nations, Cambridge 1948; German Translation: The United Nations translator Hans G. Ficker, Frankfurt am Main 1951
- Australian Labour Leader: The Story Of W. A. Holman and the Labour Movement, 1954
Literature on Evatt
- Kylie Tennant: Evatt: politics and justice. Sydney & London, 1970, ISBN 0-207-12051- X.
- Peter Crockett: Evatt: a life. Melbourne 1993, ISBN 0-19-553558-8.
- Ken Buckley, Barbara Dale, Wayne Reynolds: Doc Evatt: patriot, internationalist, fighter and scholar. Melbourne 1994, ISBN 0-582-80719-0.