Harold Cox interviewed by Mel Pratt for the Mel Pratt collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 741341
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cox, Erle Harold, 1903-1989, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1973 Apr. 6 - June
- 1 tape reel : 1 7/8 ips, mono. ; 5 in.
- Series:
- Mel Pratt collection.
- Summary:
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Harold Cox, a journalist, describes Canberra in the 1930s; the Lyons Government; Gullet's trade diversion policy; Lyons; Munich crisis telephone leakage; legation in Washington; National Insurance Scheme; relations between Menzies and Page; Menzies; petrol rationing; Hughes; mine sweeping accident off Melbourne; Odlum; Fraser Elliott; W.V. McCall; fall of Fadden Government; Wilson; Country Progressive Party; Curtin; entry of the Japanese into the War; American forces in Australia; Drakeford; Blamey; Bruce; censorship; United Nations conference in San Francisco, 1945; Mr Kaiser; Evatt and Forde; Halifax and Cadogan; Evatt; Chifley; nationalisation of banking; Communist Party Dissolution Bill; Petrov Affair; French diplomat neighbours in Canberra; Sir William Slim; Archie Cameron; betting in Parliament House; Matner; McMullen; Menzies and Casey; Suez Canal; Casey; Menzies' and Casey's attitudes to Asia; constitutional position of the Governor-General; Holt; McMahon; McEwan.
- Biography/History:
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Harold Cox served as a journalist over a period of forty nine years, thirty six of which were spent in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Canberra.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at his home in Canberra.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-214883552
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 61 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Pratt, Mel, -1986, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Mel Pratt collection.
This collection contains 99 records. - Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2043 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1973
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