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Writing to Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce in September 1929, R. G. Casey observed “I am generally of the opinion that specialised international lawyers are not the best conductors of government business—but rather that they should be introduced, as technicians, at appropriate moments to deal with technical matters.” Immersed in such technicalities, they lack, argued Casey, a political sense. Yet, he then qualified this judgment with high praise of W. Harrison Moore and his work at the League of Nations in Geneva: “what this year’s delegation would have done without him, I tremble to think.” Casey went on to suggest that if Australia gained a position on the League Council in 1930, a person “of proper weight” should be recommended to occupy a position in London to discharge League business and represent Canberra at Council meetings; “Harrison Moore is indicated” (Hudson and North 1980: 559). At that point in his career, Casey stood in Harrison Moore’s debt. Leonie Foster has determined that one of the introductions that smoothed the path for R. G. Casey was a letter Moore had written to Lionel Curtis, suggesting that the new Australian Liaison Officer to the Foreign Office be introduced by Curtis to members of the Round Table movement, including Philip Kerr (Foster 1986: 164). Casey’s extraordinary success, taken under the wing of Maurice Hankey and given access, from his rooms at the Cabinet Office, to much sensitive diplomatic and military information, is a major chapter in Australia’s early foreign relations (Hudson 1986: 48–75).
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Cotton, J. (2013). W. Harrison Moore: Imperialism and Internationalism. In: The Australian School of International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137308061_3
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