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341 · The Age, 6 October 1954.
342 · Murray, The Split, 184.
343 · Evidence for this comes from The Split; McClelland, Stirring the Possum; Kane, Exploding the Myths, and Santamaria, Santamaria: A Memoir.
344 · Santamaria, Santamaria: A Memoir, 123–25.
345 · Kerr, Matters for Judgment, 145.
346 · See Kane, Exploding the Myths, 44–5. Evatt did have some reason for his paranoia about Santamaria. According to Australian journalist David Hirst, Santamaria had been supplying ASIO with information from the 1940s and ASIO had given information sourced by Santamaria to the Royal Commission.
347 · Santamaria, Santamaria: A Memoir, 154.
348 · McClelland, Stirring the Possum, 102.
349 · Santamaria, Santamaria: A Memoir, 241.
350 · Ibid., 241–42.
351 · Kane, Exploding the Myths, 38.
352 · The letter is reproduced in Santamaria, “So Clean a Spirit”, Quadrant, vol. 20, no. 3 (1977): 52.
353 · Santamaria, Santamaria: A Memoir, 243.
354 · McAuley to Santamaria, February 1955; Quadrant papers, quoted in ibid., 243–44.
355 · Ibid., 161–62.
356 · McAuley to Martin Haley, 7 November 1957; 25 December 1957, Haley papers.
357 · Donald Horne, interview with the author.
358 · Quoted in Coleman, The Heart of James McAuley, 57.
359 · Santamaria, Santamaria: A Memoir, 244–45.
360 · Santamaria, “So Clean a Spirit”, Quadrant, vol. 20, no. 3 (1977): 52.
361 · Bob Santamaria, interview with the author.
362 · McAuley, “In a Late Hour”.
363 · Bob Santamaria, interview with the author.
364 · From “The Vintage”, published in the Bulletin, 18 April 1956.
365 · McAuley, “The Grinning Mirror”, Twentieth Century, vol. 10, no. 4 (1956): 302–14.
366 · McAuley, “The Clash of Cultures”, Twentieth Century, vol. 11, no. 1 (1956): 24–37.
367 · All the quotes come from “Reflections on Poznam”, The Free Spirit, July (1956): 1–2.
368 · Vincent Buckley to Martin Haley, 12 November 1954, Haley papers.
369 · From “Retreat”, reprinted in Santamaria, Santamaria: A Memoir.
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370 · Richard Connolly has suggested this was an echo of the statement of Pope Pius XII in 1956, ‘We are in the springtime of history’, which became the basis for a hymn by McAuley which began ‘Spring is here, the fields rejoice …’ See Connolly, “Making Hymns with James McAuley”.
371 · McAuley, “By Way of Prologue”, Quadrant, vol. 1, no. 1 (1956): 3–5.
372 · Richard Krygier, “The Making of a Cold War Warrior”, Quadrant, vol 30, no. 11 (1968): 19.
373 · This account of the Congress for Cultural Freedom is drawn from Peter Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy: The Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe and Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War.
374 · Saunders, Who Paid the Piper?, 29–30.
375 · ibid., 84.
376 · Tom Braden “I’m Glad the CIA is Immoral” 20 May 1967, quoted in Saunders, Who Paid the Piper?, 98.
377 · Coleman, Liberal Conspiracy, 46.
378 · Saunders, Who Paid the Piper?, 126–7.
379 · ibid., 135.
380 · ibid., 106–8.
381 · AACF papers, box 1.
382 · Josselson to Krygier, 3 November 1952, AACF papers, box 1.
383 · Richard Krygier, interview with J. D. B. Miller.
384 · Krygier to Josselson, 26 August 1953, AACF papers, box 1.
385 · AACF papers, box 1; Richard Krygier, interview with J. D. B. Miller.
386 · Krygier, “The Making of a Cold War Warrior”, Quadrant, vol. 30, no. 11 (1986): 38–43.
387 · Richard Casey to John Latham, 22 February 1954, Latham papers, series 71.
388 · 19 July 1954, AACF papers, box 2.
389 · All the funds have been calculated in 1998/99 dollars according to the CPI as listed in the ABS Cat 6401.0.
390 · Krygier to Josselson, 29 April 1954, AACF papers, box 1. As well as Latham from Victoria and Krygier from NSW, the initial Executive consisted of Arthur Fox from Western Australia, John Eccles from Canberra, Justice Gibson from Tasmania, James Maloney and Eugene Goossens from NSW.
391 · Coleman, “Prodigal Sons”, Quadrant, vol. 30, no. 11 (1986): 10–21.
392 · 9 February 1955, Latham papers, series 71.
393 · Krygier to Hunt, 27 August 1956, AACP Papers Box 6.
394 · Krygier, July report 1953, AACF papers, box 1.
395 · Krygier to Josselson, 18 May 1953; AACF papers, box 1.
396 · 9 April 1953, AACF papers, box 1.
397 · Saunders, Who Paid the Piper?, 167–77.
398 · Christesen to Latham, nd, Latham Papers, series 71.
399 · Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June 1954.
400 · Christesen to Latham, 26 August 1954, AACF papers, box 4.
401 · Meanjin, vol. 13, no. 4 (1955): 611.
402 · Capp, Writers Defiled: Security Surveillance of Australian Writers and Intelligence, 126.
403 · AACF paper, box 1.
404 · Richard Krygier, interview with J. D. B. Miller.
405 · Richard Krygier report, 16 April 1955, Latham papers, series 71.
406 · Richard Krygier, interview with J. D. B. Miller.
407 · Richard Krygier, “Twenty Years”, Quadrant, vol. 21, no. 3 (1977): 58–9.
408 · James McAuley, interview with Catherine Santamaria.
409 · Richard Krygier to John Latham, 9 May 1955, Latham papers, series 71.
410 · McAuley to Hope, June 1955, Hope papers.
411 · The three proposals are in the Latham papers, series 71.
412 · McAuley to Hope, 27 August 1955, Hope papers.
413 · Correspondence, 14 November-23 November 1955, Latham papers, series 71.
414 · Campbell to Latham, 19 November 1955; Denning to Latham, 27 November 1955, Latham papers, series 71.
415 · Richard Krygier, “Twenty Years”.
416 · James McAuley Report December 1955, Latham papers, series 71.
417 · Vincent Buckley “James McAuley: The Man and the Poet”, Westerly, vol. 3 (1960): 13–15.
418 · McAuley to Dobson, 26 February 1956, Dobson papers.
419 · Personnel file, AA SP947/1 item 412.
420 · Richard Krygier, interview with J. D. B. Miller; Krygier, “Twenty Years”.
421 · The point is made by John McLaren in Writing in Hope and Fear, 98.
422 · McAuley, “By Way of Prologue”, Quadrant, vol. 1, no. 1 (1956): 3–5.
423 · Westerly, vol. 1 (1957): 47–8.
424 · Financial statement. AACF papers, Box 2.
425 · Santamaria, Santamaria: A Memoir, 172.
426 · McClelland, Stirring the Possum, 107.
427 · Quadrant, vol. 20, no. 1 (1976): 25–8.
428 · McClelland, Stirring the Possum, 107; Kerr, Matters for Judgment, 148.
429 · McClelland, Stirring the Possum, 108.
430 · Hal Wootten, interview with the author.
431 · McAuley to Haley, 5 November 1957, Haley papers.
432 · McAuley to Haley, 25 December 1957, ibid.
433 · T. W. Southwood, The Wisdom of Guilford Young, 41; 55.
434 · Dymphna Clark, interview with the author.
435 · James McAuley, interview with Catherine Santamaria.
436 · For detailed analysis of the Orr case, see Pybus, Gross Moral Turpitude: The Orr Case Reconsidered.
437 · McAuley to Latham, 21 January 1957, Latham papers, series 71.
438 · Hal Wootten, interview with the author.
439 · James McAuley, interview with Catherine Santamaria.
440 · High Court transcript quoted in Pybus, Gross Moral Turpitude, 71.
441 · McAuley to Latham, 5 February 1957, Latham Papers, series 71.
442 · McAuley, “Right and Left”, Quadrant, vol. 1, no. 2 (1957): 3.
443 · McAuley, “Two Ways of Thought”, Quadrant, vol. 1, no. 3 (1957): 4.
444 · McAuley, “Liberalism Today”, Quadrant, vol. 1, no. 4 (1957): 3–4.
445 · Krygier, “Twenty Years”, 59.
446 · “What Quadrant is Doing”, nd 1958, Quadrant papers, H2523.
447 · McAuley, “The Magian Heresy”, Quadrant, vol. 1, no. 4 (1957): 65–71.
448 · McAuley, “From a Poet’s Notebook”, Quadrant, vol. 2, no. 4 (1959): 47–55.
449 · “An Art of Poetry”.
450 · Geoffrey Dutton, “The Classic Pose”, Australian Letters, vol. 2, no. 3 (1959): 49–53.
451 · Nearly twenty years later, McAuley singled out this criticism in his introduction to A Map of Australian Verse, 189.
452 · McAuley, “True and False Unity”, Twentieth Century, vol. 13, no. 2 (1957): 108–17.
453 · Quoted in Santamaria, Santamaria: A Memoir, 246–47.
454 · Kane, Exploding the Myths.
455 · McAuley to Haley, 5 November 1957, Haley papers.
456 · McAuley to Haley, 10 January 1958, ibid.
457 · Ibid.
458 · McAuley, “Power Vacuum to Our North”, Observer, 5 April 1958, 109–10.
459 · Quoted by Kramer in “What Did James McAuley Do With His Life?”, Quadrant, vol. 29, no. 10 (1985): 38.
460 · “ALP Crisis and the Roman Catholic Church”, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 September 1958.
461 · “Exploit”.
462 · Quoted in Coleman, The Heart of James McAuley, 67.
463 · Campion, A Place in the City, 28.
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464 · Arndt, “Flirting with the Anti-Christ”, Observer, 17 May 1958.
465 · Geoffrey Serie to John Latham, 24 January 1958, Latham papers, series 71.
466 · Richard Krygier, interview with J. D. B. Miller.
467 · McAuley to Haley, 10 January 1958, Haley papers.
468 · This information was conveyed by the NCC chaplain, Eric D’Arcy, later to succeed Guilford Young as the archbishop of Tasmania. D’Arcy to McAuley, 25 December 1959, Quadrant papers, H2524.
469 · McAuley, “On Being An Intellectual”, Quadrant, vol. 4, no. 1 (1960): 23–31.
470 · McAuley, The End of Modernity, 5.
471 · Buckley, “James McAuley: The Man and the Poet”, Westerly, vol. 3 (1960): 15.
472 · Hughes, Australian Letters, vol. 2, no. 3 (1959): 46.
473 · Irving Krisol to James McAuley, July 1925, quoted by Coleman, The Heart of James McAuley, 90.
474 · Richard Krygier, interview with J. D. B. Miller.
475 · Krygier to Latham, 26 June 1959, Latham papers, series 71.
476 · John Hunt was an American novelist and CIA agent who took over as administrative secretary when executive director Michael Josselson moved to Geneva for his health. See Coleman, Liberal Conspiracy, 173–74.
477 · AACF papers, box 5; box 9.
478 · See Ralph Summy and Malcolm Saunders, “The 1959 Melbourne Peace Congress: culmination of anti-communism in Australia” in Better Dead than Red, eds Ann Curthoys and John Merrit.
479 · McKnight, Australian Spies and their Secrets, 183.
480 · Stout papers.
481 · McAuley to Hope, nd 1959, Hope papers.
482 · Peter Coleman, interview with the author.
483 · Others involved included Frank Knopfelmacher and members of his group at the University of Melbourne, Bob Santamaria, as well as liberal Catholics like Vincent Buckley and ex-communists Stephen Murray-Smith and Ian Turner.
484 · AACF Papers, box 9 and 10.
485 · 16 October 1963, AACF papers, box 5.
486 · See AACF papers, box 9 and 7.
487 · Krygier to Horne, 15 October 1962, Horne papers, MLK 2143.
488 · McAuley to Krygier, 5 May 1959, AACF papers, box 3.
489 · McAuley to Hope, 6 March 1959, Hope papers.
490 · “The Inception of a Poem”.
491 · Buckley, Cutting Green Hay, 178.
492 · McAuley to Santamaria, nd June 1960, Quadrant papers, H2524.
493 · Quiros notebook quoted by Kramer in “A World Unsimplified”.
494 · Twentieth Century, vol. 19, no. 2 (1964): 107–16.
495 · Leonie Kramer, “James McAuley’s ‘Captain Quiros’: The Rational Paradise”, Southerly, vol. 25, no. 3 (1965): 147–61.
496 · Prospect, vol. 7, no. 3 (1964): 30.
497 · Santamaria, Santamaria: A Memoir, 249.
498 · McAuley to Santamaria, 13 January 1960, Quadrant papers, H2524.
499 · Kerr had originally put his view at the Institute of Political Science Summer School in January 1958 and he refined the idea in articles published by Horne in Observer. John Kerr, “Independence for New Guinea”, Observer, 6 September 1958; “How to Keep Our Initiative”, Observer, 17 September 1960.
500 · McAuley to Santamaria, 28 June 1960, Quadrant papers, H2524.
501 · McAuley to Sr Dorothea, 13 January 1960, ibid.
502 · “My New Guinea”, Quadrant, vol. 5, no. 3 (1961): 15–27.
503 · Ed Campion, interview with the author.
504 · James McAuley, interview with Catherine Santamaria.
505 · Quoted by Kramer in “What Did James McAuley do with his life?”, 38.
506 · James McAuley, interview with Catherine Santamaria.
507 · McAuley to Rowley, 26 May 1961, AA SP947.
508 · McAuley to Walter Stone, 12 December 1961, Walter Stone papers.
509 · McAuley to Latham, 13 June 1961, Latham papers, series 71.
510 · James McAuley, interview with Catherine Santamaria.
511 · University of Tasmania Council Papers, March 1961, Isles papers.
512 · Tony Kearney, interview with the author.
513 · Keith Isles, Council meeting notes item, 16 October 1961, Isles papers. It seems that Ian Maxwell may have been replaced on the interview panel by another close friend, Vincent Buckley. Laurie Hergenhan, interview with the author.
514 · Krygier to Latham, 17 July 1961, Latham papers, series 71.
515 · Latham to Krygier, 23 June 1961; 27 June 1971; 7 August 1961; 5 October 1961, AACF papers, box 4.
