"Evatt’s trust was naive and misplaced."

"The book, Saving Australia, written primarily from sources and documents discovered in Japan, also reveals that the attorney-general and foreign minister, Herbert ‘Doc’ Evatt, in 1942 unwittingly compromised Australia’s national security by his ‘hands off’ treatment of Japanese diplomats.
Saving Australia, Curtin’s secret peace with Japan, is published by Lothian Books. Copyright © Bob Wurth, 2006."