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.
[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] Late in 1944, Milner was appointed to the Post-Hostilities Division (P-HD) of the Australian Government's then Department of External Affairs.
He and his wife held deeply anti-American views and the United States Government is believed to have opened a security file on him.
[5] From Prague, Milner denied ever being member of the Communist Party of Australia or wittingly divulging confidential information to any unauthorised person.