Norman Makin and postwar diplomacy, 1946–51

At the farewell gathering held in Melbourne before he departed to take up his post as Australia’s first Ambassador to the United States, Norman Makin commented that he saw one of his tasks as to eradicate the popular impression overseas that ‘the Australian is an uncouth fellow, with a ribald sense...

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Zusammenfassung:	At the farewell gathering held in Melbourne before he departed to take up his post as Australia’s first Ambassador to the United States, Norman Makin commented that he saw one of his tasks as to eradicate the popular impression overseas that ‘the Australian is an uncouth fellow, with a ribald sense of humour and singularly lacking in appreciation of the finer things of life’.¹ It would be hard to conjure anyone better qualified to do so than this small, bespectacled and tidy man. Makin was a Labor-type more common in Britain than in Australia: an earnest, abstaining, self-improving Methodist layman.