Another image from the late West or post-West
On the evening after her famous escape last week, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard held a reception for foreign diplomats. The UK Telegraph ran this photograph:
PM Julia Gillard is joined by partner Tim Mathieson to welcome Swedish Ambassador HE Anders Jake F. writes: “… a man, excuse me, a male.”February 4 LA writes: The caption in Australia’s Daily Telegraph said, and I reproduced it exactly, “PM Julia Gillard is joined by partner Tim Mathieson to welcome Swedish Ambassador HE Anders.” I thought “HE Anders,” without periods dividing the initials for his name, looked odd, and so I looked him up to find what H.E. stands for. But according to the website of the Swedish embassy in Canberra, Australia, the ambassador is Sven-Olof Petersson. I could nothing on the Web about “HE Anders.” Also, the photograph of Gillard greeting Anders is no longer in the Daily Telegraph article. So I am unable to verify the name of the man being greeted by Gillard. Also, in looking for the ambassador’s name, I came upon another photograph of Gillard and Mathieson:
Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 03, 2012 12:35 PM | Send Email entry |