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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cameron, Milton

Titel

Age of the Masters: Establishing a scientific and intellectual community in Canberra, 1946–1968

Ist Teil von

• Experiments in Modern Living, 2012, p.7

Ort / Verlag

Australia: ANU E Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• One evening in April 1946, Australian Prime Minister, Ben Chifley, in London for the first postwar Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference, booked a large table for dinner at The Savoy Hotel in The Strand. Also dining with him that night was a thirty-six-year-old economist and planner, Herbert Cole (‘Nugget’) Coombs,³ whom he had appointed Director-General of the Commonwealth Department of Post-War Reconstruction, Dr Herbert Vere (‘Doc’) Evatt, the Minister for External Affairs, and other members of the official party. The Savoy, one of London’s most distinguished and elegant hotels, was upgrading its menu now that rationing was over, and under the