The Young Evatt — Labor's New Liberal

In 1936 H. V. Evatt published The King and His Dominion Governors. Although not yet quite at the height of his achievement upon the world stage, Evatt was already the leading statesman in–the–making, at home and abroad. A figure no less than Harold Laski introduced the volume. The title page of the book testified to Evatt's prestige, as well as indicating something of his own sense of achievement Evatt presented himself to the world as follows: