03832nam 22006373 450 991058594670332120240424230217.097817604650941760465097(CKB)5580000000317920(MiAaPQ)EBC6970688(Au-PeEL)EBL6970688(OCoLC)1306244581(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/91371(Perlego)3472898(oapen)doab91371(EXLCZ)99558000000031792020220715d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPersons of Interest An Intimate Account of Cecily and John Burton1st ed.CanberraANU Press2022Canberra :ANU Press,2022.©2022.1 online resource (412 pages)ANU Lives Series in Biography9781760465087 1760465089 Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1. Courting controversy -- 2. Cecily's travels with Judith Wright -- 3. A shared heritage -- 4. John's father: A radical, mission-driven Methodist -- 5. Embracing opportunities -- 6. Paradise lost -- 7. Honeymoon in dangerous times -- 8. The sinking of the Arandora Star -- 9. A remarkable rise in the public service -- 10. The Burton plot: Reconstruction and Nugget Coombs -- 11. Domesticity and babies -- 12. Australia on the world stage -- 13. Farming with an 'accommodating wife' -- 14. A controversial head of department -- 15. Reshaping Australia's foreign policy -- 16. The Gnomes of Melbourne -- 17. Political suicide -- 18. John's short stint as high commissioner in Ceylon -- 19. The beginning of the end of a marriage -- 20. Cecily's life-changing encounter -- 21. China: Neither 'dead nor red' -- 22. Paying the price for a mission of peace -- 23. An interlude: Farming the Burton way -- 24. Holding it together -- 25. The Petrov inquiry -- 26. Indonesia with ASIO in tow -- 27. A shift to the city: Enterprises and infidelity -- 28. The Snowy Mountains bus, bubble cars and other ventures -- 29. A family in crisis -- 30. A love triangle -- 31. Staging musicals: 'The Girl' and 'The Bloke' -- 32. Turmoil -- 33. The breakup -- 34. Tugs of war of love and divorce -- 35. Looking to Jung -- 36. Coming into her own: Counselling Cecily style -- 37. Revisiting relationship difficulties -- 38. John's 'real career' -- 39. Coming full circle: Cecily, Robert, John and all -- 40. A family shattered: Loss of Clare -- 41. Blue autumn: Cecily passes -- Select bibliography.A world in upheaval; two lives lived under stress ... This story is set in the social and political landscape of pre- and post-World War II. It tells two vastly different tales of Cecily and John's lives in Australia and overseas, as nations clashed, and governments and international organisations tried to remake the world.ANU Lives Series in BiographyPersons of InterestAutobiography: historical, political & militarybicsscAustralasian & Pacific historybicsscJohn BurtonAustralian Department of External AffairsASIOmemoirautobiographyCanberraAutobiography: historical, political & militaryAustralasian & Pacific history994.04092Burton Pamela1147115Edwards Meredith(Meredith Ann)1436280MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910585946703321Persons of Interest3594765UNINA