Papers [manuscript]. 1905-1962.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1905-1962.

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The papers comprise newspaper cuttings on socialism; letters and reports re the Commonwealth Table of Preference; magazines and maps on war subjects, 1940-1945; papers of the Security Council and General Assembly of the United Nations; material relating to John Christian Watson's retirement as leader of the Federal Labor Party, addresses delivered by Makin as Ambassador to the United States; biographies of former members of Parliament and of the Australian Labor Party; memoirs of his term as ambassador; and a two volume manual of parliamentary history, procedures and usages and recollections of the Speakers Sir Frederick Holder, Charles C. Salmon, Charles McDonald, Sir William E. Johnson, William A. Watt, Sir Ernest L. Groom, Makin himself, George Mackay, Sir George J. Bell, Walter M. Nairn, John S. Rosevear, A.G. Cameron, and Sir John McLeay.

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Makin, Norman John Oswald, 1889-1982

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Norman Makin was born on 31st Mar. 1889 at Petersham, N.S.W. He became an Hon. L.L.D. of Syracuse and Ohio Universities. From 1918-1919 he was President of the South Australian Labor Party, and from 1919-1946 was M.H.R. for Hindmarsh, S.A. He is a former Federal President of the Australian Labor Party. In the period from 1929-1931 he was Speaker of the House of Representatives. He was a member of the Advisory War Council from 1940, and a member of the War Cabinet. From 1941-1943 he was Minister ...