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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 13, 1968
Page
2
A wide ranging portrait of the Huxley lineage, focusing on T. H. Huxley and his kin. The piece traces scholarly roots, wartime work, and cultural influence through Aldous, Julian, and family ties with Roy and Leomard, highlighting Darwinian zeal and cross disciplinary reach.
A review notes Last Witness of RFK and In Her Own Right profile Robert Kennedy era topics. It praises Kennedy as a realist leader who links civil rights poverty and foreign policy to private enterprise and negotiated Vietnam settlement while critiquing South Vietnamese regimes. It contrasts Kennedy’s conscience with the era's political dynamics and reflects on women’s rights debates in Australia and global equality efforts.
A mixed review of Henry Kamen's A History of Toleration and David Tribe's 100 Years of Free Thought. The critique notes Kamen's focus on 16th and 17th century Europe and his optimistic wrap, while praising his accessibility yet warning about underplaying inherent intol erance in monotheistic systems. It also surveys Tribe's secular history, the National Secular Society centenary, and their shared aim to test reason over authority, despite lapses in historical precision.
A review of Hughes’s account on Sukarno’s fall, military and Communist links, health rumours, interservice rivalry, and the purge’s death toll. It notes disputed figures from 60,000 to 1,000,000, village hostility to Aidit, and Suharto’s rise via cabinet reshuffle and the Bogor escape. The piece weighs evidence and cautions on predicting Indonesia’s next moves.
A British American study series examines defence technology in Western Europe, detailing NATO standardisation aims versus national industry pride, US dominance in defence spending, and the push to foster independent European production capacities amid resource constraints. The Australian defence production angle frames key procurement, technology transfer, and policy implications.
Two Pelican paperbacks highlighted: The Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence by C. Ip gmdarme translated from Swedish, price 1-30. The Railway Navvies by Terry Coleman, Creprint edition, 256 pages, price 1-30. A brief note on the unknown nineteenth century labourers who built British railways.
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