Addresses and Articles

Component identifier:

Series 6

Content Summary:

This series contains an article on the English language, dated 1877; a typescript copy of notes used when Isaacs introduced the Usury Prevention Bill in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1898; a typescript of his address entitled the Monash Oration delivered in 1937 to the Victorian Jewish Graduates and Undergraduates; 'The Constitutional compromise of Section 74 departed from by the 1936 judgment', an address Isaacs gave to the International Law Society c. 1940; 'Hitler and civilization', an article written during World War II; and 'World Peace' written in June 1947.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Sir Isaac Isaacs received by the National Library in three parts. The major portion was deposited by Lady Isaacs in 1950. In 1968, after the death of Isaacs' daughter Mrs Marjorie Cohen, a second group of papers was received from her son Thomas B. Cohen. A further collection, used by Sir Zelman Cowen for his biography Isaac Isaacs, was deposited in April 1970.

Names:

Sir Isaac Isaacs

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