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STEVENSON, Mrs. J. P.
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Fix this textThe Director,
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Fix this textCanberra, Ashet.
Fix this textThank you for your memorandum (W68/161) of July 24, enelosing correspondence
Fix this textreceived by the Frime Minister’s Secretary, Miss Hazel Craig, from the Rev. J.P.
Fix this textStevenson of Melbourne.
Fix this textThen I received Mr. Stevenson’s first letter (dated April 10, 1061), I was
Fix this textimpressed.
Fix this textFresupposing that ""publicity"" for the
Fix this text""Refntour"" project to be
Fix this textundertaken by Mrs. and Miss Stevenson would concern, in a practical way, an
Fix this textAustralian effort to aid ""the thousands of under-privileged women and children""
Fix this text(the phrase in Mr. Stevensons), I was warm in my offer of help. In my reply i
Fix this textsaid: ""I shall be very happy to do all I can to assist, and since I am in close
Fix this textLauch with Heuters, London, and other newspaper sources, I could very simply ast
Fix this textas an agent..1 trust that Mrs. Stevenson’s tour will most with all the
Fix this textsuecess auch splenid enterprise deserves.
Fix this textSince that letter was written, we have received about 7,000 words (a
Fix this textconservative estimate) of ""correspondence – letters and roneoed ""reports"" filled
Fix this textwith the most blatant self publicity it has ever been my lot to read.
Fix this textFrom the attached extracts from this correspondence, you will understand
Fix this textthat my enthusiasm quickly sickened and then died. To have attempted to release
Fix this textthe material Mr. Stevenson has sent for publication and presumably for promotion,
Fix this textwould, I believe, have damaged the credit of this Hureau, and, too, the credit
Fix this textmlich Mrs. und Wiss Stevenson could Justifiably expest to command an resching
Fix this textLondon.
Fix this textIn his letter of July 7, 1962, to Miss Craig, Mr. Stevenson complainst
Fix this text""So far the various papers, etc., that have asked the Nora and Information Bureau
Fix this textat Australia House for photos and details of my wife’s progress have drawn an
Fix this textabsolute and total blank, nor have my various letters been answered over a period
Fix this textof fifteen months"".
Fix this textHe have had two, perhaps three, telephone queries, each of which was
Fix this textanswered by our Fress Officer, Mr. Scumberg, who supplied auch information as we
Fix this textthen had at hand.
Fix this textIn response to one of these enquiries, a photograph (the only
Fix this textcopy supplied) of Mrs. and Miss Stevenson with vehicle, was passed on.
Fix this textie for replying to Mr. Stevenson’s letters, we have replied to three of
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Fix this textTheme were the only letters that called for a replys the remainder of
Fix this texthis correspondence mainly concerned the promotion of the Stevenson first person
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Fix this texton June 10, 1068, (barely three weeks before he wrote his objectionable
Fix this textletter to Miss Craig), I received an air-letter from Mr. Stevenson, early in which
Fix this texthe prote: Thile thers in probably Little that von enn de at the mament en regards
Fix this textmuhlleity, I think it is nor Line to start going into the question of who in geing
Fix this textTo handle my wife’s press releases, broadcasting and T.V. arrangements, etc., when
Fix this textehe und our daughter reach London in the (English) autumn"".
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Fix this textin the same letter, Mr. Stevenson makes these commentsi-
Fix this texteeeeeeeit is of the utmost importance that she should not have
Fix this textto start the broadcasting and T.V. ball rolling for herself
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