Nothing succeeds like a stab-in-the-back legend, and within the labour movement there is a long tradition of suspicion of the self seeking proclivities of politicians. Therefore it is not surprising that some have sought to explain the 1949 defeat of Labor's longest national government, in whole or in part, by the efforts of sitting M.P.s to secure safe seats for themselves in the sweeping redistribution which resulted from the enlargement of the House of Representatives from 74 to 121 members. Recently two veterans have put the allegations in print. In a profile of Arthur Calwell, Graham Freudenberg first attacked Calwell as the architect of proportional representation for the Senate, then continued: