The Brilliant Boy by Gideon Haigh

Author:Gideon Haigh [Haigh, Gideon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
Published: 2021-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

I therefore proposed that I interview him. He literally shrank away from me. If there was one thing he was not seeking it was publicity. All that he was to discuss with his friend Felix Frankfurter had historic significance and wasn’t for the purpose of personal aggrandisement. I said I could have nothing but admiration for such an attitude.

On his return from Harvard three weeks later, however, an altogether different Evatt invited Rothman to New York’s Park Plaza. At swaggering length, the Australian recounted his campus triumphs, and cited the esteem in which Frankfurter held him: he quoted Frankfurter as remarking that Evatt had one of ‘the great minds in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence’. Evatt carried on: ‘And I want you to go to your office and send that to Australia.’ Rothman was taken aback. What had become of that appealing aversion to ‘personal aggrandisement’? As Rothman also explained, he could hardly accept being told what to report. ‘So I see you’re on the other side,’ Evatt said sourly. ‘I thought I knew where your sympathies lay but I see that I was wrong.’ At length Rothman came to an agreement with Evatt: he would seek a comment from Frankfurter himself. But such was the professor’s reticence, Rothman recalled, the story did not end well.

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