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The papers comprise newspaper cuttings on socialism; letters and reports re the Commonwealth Table of Preference; magazines and maps on war subjects, 1940-1945; papers of the Security Council and General Assembly of the United Nations; material relating to John Christian Watson's retirement as leader of the Federal Labor Party, addresses delivered by Makin as Ambassador to the United States; biographies of former members of Parliament and of the Australian Labor Party; memoirs of his term as ambassador; and a two volume manual of parliamentary history, procedures and usages and recollections of the Speakers Sir Frederick Holder, Charles C. Salmon, Charles McDonald, Sir William E. Johnson, William A. Watt, Sir Ernest L. Groom, Makin himself, George Mackay, Sir George J. Bell, Walter M. Nairn, John S. Rosevear, A.G. Cameron, and Sir John McLeay.
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