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Fix this textTHE PETROV SPY CASE
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Fix this textPetrov, and his wife, from the Soviet Embassy in Canberra,
Fix this texthis securing of political asylum in Australia. I was
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Fix this textthere has grown up a journalistic legend that the whole
Fix this textaffair was a cleverly timed political scheme of mine to
Fix this textwin an election which I would otherwise have lost. This
Fix this textcharge had been made by Dr. Evatt, the Leader of the
Fix this textDeposition time after time, and had been shown to be false
Fix this texttime after time. But, as so frequently happens in life,
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Fix this textpunches". The establishment of a Royal Commission of
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Fix this textmethods so successfully as to render future activity of
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Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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