Of Eddie And Hi[?]

Mr. Hasluck's Re-appointm[?] Strikes a Chord Of Eddie And Hi[?] Red Tabbed Ladies And Gent[?]

T> HADING of the re-app " ment of Mr. Paul Hash*

the Ministry of Territorie

which means that he is back : as Dictator of Papua and Guinea 1 began to thin

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known in the past 30 year?

My quaintest experience pro lay in my few brief contacts the Australian Labour Pi Leftist personality, Mr. Eddie T He became Territories Minister ing World War 11.

During the war, he surroi himself with “advisers”—mostl; thropologists and University g: ates, who got commissions as M and Colonels, and strutted ar Papua and New Guinea bearin red tabs of the General Staff.

They were Eddie’s “planne and as soon as the war was their plans were put into shap< was to be expected, they mad provision for the re-entry of pi enterprise—the storekeepers an shipowners were to have no pla the Wardist tropical heaven, the planters were warned thf they didn’t keep their noses ( sociologically speaking, there \ be no future for them, either.

Naturally, the PIM had mu< say about Eddie and his planm If the economic sins of unch< private enterprise breed Comm sentiment, the absurdities of fettered Socialist planners cert create reactionaries; and the 1 reaction to Eddie’s team of tabbed ladies and gentlemen and least add something to the gaie our readers.

No 'Permit 7 for PIM As soon as the war was ov made application for a “permi visit P-NG—I very much want see the war-torn place. But Mil Eddie Ward himself replied thj could see no good reason w. should be permitted to go to Guinea—but I could renew application in six when it would be again “conside I replied, in an editorial, tl would not again make applies to Mr. Ward; and I added: / unlikely that we shall visit Territories in 1946; but we visit the Territories many, r times after Minister Ward, anc (Opposite page, please)

nt Socialist structure he has ;ed in the Territories, has been igned to the limbo of forgotten icians.” •. Ward and his co-Socialists not defeated in 1946 and >ugh Mrs. Judy Tudor was ously allowed to proceed to the itory in that year, I had to wait 1949—when they all went out a resounding electoral bang— e revisiting Papua and New ea. ice then Mr. Ward, and all the Dries he arouses —including the ppy Timber Leases inquiry, and gaoling of Mr. Ward’s famous iman, Jock Garden — have id into obscurity, happily, the Wardist mantle left around the shoulders of Ward-appointed Administrator, lel J. K. Murray; and the PIM imong the vengeful pack which ‘d J. K. Murray down, because as a Ward appointee.

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it was a mistake. We now J. K. Murray to have been of the most able and most it men who ever filled the job i Australian Islands Admin or. He was unlucky in that he elected by the hated Mr. Ward, /way, he has been well re d. Some time after Ward dis red, the Territories came under linisterial control of the West : r a 1 i a n leader-writer, Paul ck; and for years, now, we had a demonstration of what ms in a country when an mic theorist is made dictator, iven limitless funds, and left — ently unchecked —to do what :es. r one can see the results in i and New Guinea, in the of an unbalanced economy, enthusiastic public service, and gmented native society that two steps sideways or back for every one that it is I, by Canberra, to take rd...

He Didn't Last sveen Ward and Hasluck we Jr. Spender—apparently eager Jly make something of Papua 'Jew Guinea by using private )rise and the driving pioneer of the young Australian ex emen. He lasted only long h to initiate the Colombo -and then he careered oif r ashington to collect an ssadorship and a KCMG, to be ed, a few months ago, by an lational Court judgeship and a Qteed huge pension at the end i judgeship... examination of Territories :ers does not promote the mas spirit of goodwill towards en. Maybe that is what is with the world generally— Western leaders have lost their r facility for putting round

nto round holes.-

Rwr.