Ian Frank George Milner (6 June 1911 – 31 May 1991) was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford who had attended Waitaki Boys' High School. He was then a political scientist, a civil servant with the Australian Department of External Affairs in Canberra and with the United Nations in New York, and from the early 1950s a professor of English at Charles University in Prague where he became the friend and translator into English of the eminent Czech poet, Miroslav Holub.
He had been implicated in the 1954 Petrov Affair during which he was named by an Australian Royal Commission as a KGB agent.[1] During his time at the Department of External Affairs, his code name was said to have been "Bur".[2] Later when a New Zealand newspaper, Truth, labelled him "a Red menace", two universities that had invited him to lecture in New Zealand withdrew their invitation.
Ian Milner was the son of one of New Zealand's most respected headmasters, Frank Milner, of Waitaki Boys' High School in Oamaru, usually known as "the Man".[3]
He was one of a group of five young New Zealand scholars who went to Oxford University in the 1930s and subsequently distinguished themselves in war and revolution;[4] James Bertram, Geoffrey Cox, Dan Davin, and John Mulgan were the others.[citation needed]
^The Rhodes Scholar Spy (Random House Australia, 1991) by Richard Hall
^Ball, Desmond (16 April 2011). "The moles at the very heart of government". The Australian.
^Intersecting Lines, the Memoirs of Ian Milner (Victoria University Press, 1993) edited and introduced by Vincent O'Sullivan
^Dance of the Peacocks, New Zealanders in exile in the time of Hitler and Mao Tse Tung (Random House, 2003) James McNeish
Ian Frank George Milner (6 June 1911 – 31 May 1991) was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford who had attended Waitaki Boys' High School...
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Poets imprint, with an introduction by Al Alvarez and translations by IanMilner and George Theiner. Holub's work was lauded by many, including Ted Hughes...
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Department at this time was IanMilner, who soon left to become an Australian diplomat. Years later it was revealed that Milner had been a secret communist...
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