Introducing BA Santamaria[1]
“Sometimes depicted as a man totally dedicated to principle, even perhaps despite consequences, he emerges…rather as an agile political pragmatist reformulating theory to suit the purpose at hand…
“[Santamaria’s] driving will is the explanatory key which allows us to see our intrepid anti-communist crusader not so much as a grand conspirator, but as a tragic figure in the classic sense, whose own indomitable will and imagination betrayed him, seducing him into a political adventure which was bound to fail.”
– Fr Bruce Duncan[2]
Bartholomew Augustine – more commonly just BA or “Santamaria” – Santamaria stands as one of the most impactful and provocative characters in Australian political history. He was one of “relatively few Australian political figures” to “leave a lasting impression on their country’s history and moral life”[3]: he deeply entangled himself in major historical events, especially the Labor Party split i
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From the NS archive: Lenin and Churchill 19 June 1920: It is curious to observe how much these two statesmen of 20th-century Europe have in common.
In June 1920 Vladimir Lenin published a “Letter to the British workers” in Pravda. He thanked them for sending a “delegation” to Russia, an “acquaintance”, he wrote, that “will inevitably accelerate the collapse of capitalism throughout the world”. War secretary and future prime minister Winston Churchill responded to Lenin’s letter in a series of columns in the Evening News. In this New Statesman article, an anonymous writer compared the two figures: “Both care more for power than for money; both are professed democrats who at bottom have not the least respect for democracy; and both, without a trace of personal brutality, act always on the assumption that human life is of very small account beside the realisation of their own aims and ideas.” Lenin’s letter should not put fear into the British people, they wr