By Tom Heenan
The unconventional journalist Wilfred Burchett (1911–1983) was once persecuted by way of the Australian executive in the course of his lifetime and publicly reviled in print lengthy after his dying. After a uncommon wartime profession with the London day-by-day Express, Burchett drifted to the left with the onset of the chilly War.
During the Korean and Vietnam wars he was once condemned as a traitor for his pro-Communist studies, and denied an Australian passport by means of successive Liberal governments of the Nineteen Fifties and 1960s.
From traveler to Traitor is the 1st scholarly biography of this arguable overseas correspondent. Tom Heenan explores the reality at the back of Burchett's experiences from his travels at the different aspect of the ideological divide. utilizing ASIO records from the Fifties to the Seventies, and different archival fabric, Heenan exposes the insubstantial nature of the allegations of treachery made opposed to Burchett. This e-book casts precious new gentle on a rare Australian whose tale is among the maximum political scandals within the nation's historical past.
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28. Lowenstein, Weevils in the Flour: An Oral Record of the 1930s Depression in Australia, p. 381. , 382–4; and Burchett, At the Barricades, pp. 29–30. Burchett to his Mother and Father, 26 December 1932, BP, SLV. Cited by Martin, Robert Menzies, vol. 1, p. 133. Burchett, Passport, p. 82. 4, December 1987, p. 46. Burchett, At the Barricades, p. 38. , p. 46. , pp. 45–6. Coversation with Winston Burchett, 10 February 1997. Burchett, ‘From Soho to Mayfair and Further’, Adam & Eve, 10 July 1937. See also Mark Purcell, op.
By granting Wilfred the benefit of his stories, Winston had sacrificed his ambitions for the sake of his brother’s. Undoubtedly, it increased Winston’s stake in Wilfred’s career. New Caledonia In early 1941 Burchett and Erna journeyed to New Caledonia. On his previous visits, he was just a traveller, but now he was a fully-fledged journalist, carrying accreditation from the Australian Associated Press (AAP). 88 He was also on ‘semi-official’ government business. Nothing had come of Burchett’s application to join Information.
If members of the family were dabbling in so-called subversive activities, it would have been noted by the authorities and mentioned in such reports. Burchett, Passport, pp. 62–3, 66–7; and At the Barricades, p. 28. Lowenstein, Weevils in the Flour: An Oral Record of the 1930s Depression in Australia, p. 381. , 382–4; and Burchett, At the Barricades, pp. 29–30. Burchett to his Mother and Father, 26 December 1932, BP, SLV. Cited by Martin, Robert Menzies, vol. 1, p. 133. Burchett, Passport, p. 82.