Jessie Street: A Revised AutobiographyFederation Press, 2004 - 246 páginas Jessie Street was a key figure in Australian political life for over 50 years. She was the only Australian woman delegate at the founding of the United Nations in 1945; the initiator of the 1967 "Aboriginal" amendment of the Australian Constitution; the colleague of Pablo Picasso on the World Peace Council Executive; and a controversial promoter of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, known as "Red Jessie" to a generation of Australians. She led an extraordinary, vivid life. Her autobiography, written with candour and humour, is a guidebook to the 20th century. From Jessie's early life in the Australian bush, readers join suffragette marches in London; hear civil rights singers in the jazz clubs of New York; visit occupied Egypt, imperial India, outback Australia, Stalin's Moscow; witness the Anschluss and Sudetenland crises in Europe in 1938; and see the destroyed cities of London, Berlin, Leningrad, and Hiroshima after the Second World War. Her life was one dedicated to peace and justice. The daughter-in-law, wife and mother of three Chief Justices, she met and worked with extraordinary figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, Margaret Sanger, Jawaharal Nehru and many others. Her autobiography, first published in 1966, is now reissued, corrected and edited, a sparkling, powerful, bright book that truly reflects Jessie Street's energy, charm and practical humanitarianism. |
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... train drivers , diplomats and parliamentarians on her first visit there . Her first attempt almost delivered the Labor Party her home electorate of Went- worth , a conservative stronghold . A key player in the establishment of the UN ...
... train drivers , diplomats and parliamentarians on her first visit there . Her first attempt almost delivered the Labor Party her home electorate of Went- worth , a conservative stronghold . A key player in the establishment of the UN ...
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... train and a great air of excitement pervaded the carriages as girls greeted each other after their nine weeks ' Summer holiday . They were laughing and talking and shouting to each other and behaving quite differently to the examples of ...
... train and a great air of excitement pervaded the carriages as girls greeted each other after their nine weeks ' Summer holiday . They were laughing and talking and shouting to each other and behaving quite differently to the examples of ...
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... train arrived in Venice at night there was someone to advise me how to get to the pension they had booked . My journey from the station along the canals proved one of the most beautiful and unforgettable experiences of my life . It was ...
... train arrived in Venice at night there was someone to advise me how to get to the pension they had booked . My journey from the station along the canals proved one of the most beautiful and unforgettable experiences of my life . It was ...
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... train to Marseilles , and caught a boat to Alexandria , but my cousin was not there to meet me . I took the train to Cairo - she was not there either . I found a cab , an open carriage with two horses , and went to the address where she ...
... train to Marseilles , and caught a boat to Alexandria , but my cousin was not there to meet me . I took the train to Cairo - she was not there either . I found a cab , an open carriage with two horses , and went to the address where she ...
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... train full of Egyptian men . He had booked the next sleeping compartment for himself . My straight - laced views had not prevented me reading Elinor Glynn's Three Weeks and On the Banks of Lake Lucerne and other revealing books , and I ...
... train full of Egyptian men . He had booked the next sleeping compartment for himself . My straight - laced views had not prevented me reading Elinor Glynn's Three Weeks and On the Banks of Lake Lucerne and other revealing books , and I ...
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Jessie Lillingston in New York 1915 | 47 |
Jessie Street at home 1943 | 135 |
Jessie Street with team examining Australian sheepskins 1943 | 146 |
Jessie Street United Associations of Women colleagues 1943 | 153 |
Our great ally A Pacific war A bid for Parliament | 154 |
Delegates to the Womans Charter Conference Sydney 1943 | 171 |
Australian delegates to the UN founding conference San Francisco 1945 | 179 |
Jessie Street with Dr Bertha Lutz San Francisco 1945 | 186 |
Waltzing Matilda | 187 |
International women Votes for women At Waverley House | 49 |
Jessie Kenneth Street with children Belinda Philippa and Roger 1924 | 61 |
Seeing the World | 71 |
Charles Lillingston and Jessie Street Switzerland 1930 | 76 |
Laurence Street and Nurse Musgrave about 1935 | 83 |
The Palais des Nations Geneva 1930 | 97 |
Voyaging Depression At home At work Nurses | 100 |
Jessie Street 1938 | 117 |
Friends and Enemies | 133 |
Jessie Street in the USSR 1945 | 205 |
Vijay Lakshmi Pandit Jessie Street New York 1945 | 215 |
Seeing the States London lights Berlin bereaved | 217 |
Officials at the World Peace Council Conference in East Berlin 1952 | 222 |
Jessie Street in China in 1958 | 228 |
Jessie Street in Australias outback 1957 | 234 |
Index | 239 |
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