that I would be needed at the Canberra Conference in August. I
told people here that I would be attending and since travel
arrangements are now being made here for those going to Canberra I
cannot conceal the fact that I shall not be attending for more
than another few days.

2. Since I understand Dr. Evatt has telegraphed you at some length
about the position here, may I summarise the course of events
which have made me withdraw from this work.

3. Until Dr. Evatt's first talk with MacArthur, he had been
instructing me to follow a line here which might be described as a
policy protest at MacArthur's unilateral acts. At Kure last Friday
Dr. Evatt warmly applauded a stand I had taken at the Allied
Council meeting and urged me in [1] here to be vigorous and
expedient in putting Australia's independent line.

4. Then Evatt had a long talk with MacArthur last Sunday. This
appeared to produce a marked and sudden change in his outlook and
policy.

5. Dr. Evatt now appeared to wish to dissociate himself from me in
his relations with the Americans. For example, he omitted me from
the Australian officials he invited to attend a party he gave to
American officers and from the group of Australians he took with
him to the correspondents' lunch address.

6. At this party on arrival Evatt began to tell the people in
private conversation that he was 'deeply disturbed at the anti-
American attitude of the Australian mission'. This was reliably
reported back to me. He told me that he thought that I had
'needled' Atcheson at Council meetings in a way that provoked
Atcheson's sharp retorts to me. I think that the complete answer
to this is to verbatim minutes of Council meetings and in my
telegram 25 for the Minister from MacMahon Ball despatched 23rd
October, 1946, paragraph 5. [2]

7. Without consulting me Dr. Evatt suggested to Robertson that he
should replace me during a considerable absence. This was duly
reported to the press.

8. Dr. Evatt has made an arrangement with one of MacArthur's
senior officers to send him through non-Departmental channels
confidential reports on what happens in Tokyo. I assume that these
reports were to govern my own activities here.

9. When I mentioned to Dr. Evatt at [3] he told me that he
considered that I had been disobedient and disloyal in my work [4]
preoccupied with personal ambition and I have shrunk from my duty
to the Government and Australia.

10. It was in these circumstances that I telegraphed that I could
not continue to work under Dr. Evatt.