The man in charge of persuading Nasser to reach a Suez agreement: Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, regarded by some of his Commonwealth partners as the ablest statesman now in office in the Commonwealth.
Early Life & Politics: Son of a village storekeeper and grandson of a miner who lost his job trying to start Australia's first miners' union. A selfmade man of 61 who is tremendously proud of his background, he calls himself "a reasonably bigoted descendant of the Scottish race." Winning top scholarships from schooldays on, he took first-class honors in law at Mel bourne University and went on...
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