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Sir (John) Keith Waller (19 February 191414 November 1992) was a senior Australian public servant and diplomat. ==Life and career== Keith Waller was born in Melbourne in 1914. He was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne.〔 Waller joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1936, in the Department of External Affairs.〔 In 1937 he was appointed Private Secretary to Billy Hughes, then Minister for External Affairs. His career proved to be long and successful, establishing himself as a successful diplomat across a number of postings, including to Moscow, Washington and Bangkok.〔 In 1943 whilst senior officer to the Australian Legation at Chungking, Waller married Alison Dent in Bombay, India. He was appointed Secretary of the Department of External Affairs (later Department of Foreign Affairs in 1970), retiring from the public service in 1974 on his 60th birthday. Soon after his retirement, Waller prepared a brief assessing the Australian Government security and intelligence apparatus as it existed in the mid-1970s. Waller died in Canberra on 14 November 1992 aged 78. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Waller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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