Letters to Australia

VOLUME 1

Forewords
Preface
Dedication

Part 1: the needs of the hour - wartime broadcasts
Editor's note
The common cause
American democracy's New Deal
Fighting faith no. one: faith in our cause
Fighting faith no. two: need we be confused?
Fighting faith no. three: the fascist challenge
Fighting faith no. four: democracy's answer
A government of laws and not of men
America at our side
China at our side
A heritage that lives
Constitution and liberty in Soviet Russia
Appeasement's defeat
These peoples will prevail

Part 2: the birth of the United Nations
The San Francisco Charter
San Francisco Charter - disarmament
The American senate and the New World Charter
UNO and veto
The Soviet-Persian issue in the Security Council
Light and shade at UNO
World planning in reverse - any progress to world security?

Part 3: political aftermath of war, and reconstruction
Two state trials of today
Cavalcade of conferences - Atlantic Charter to Potsdam
Theories for defeat
Blocs and cordons sanitaires and the failure of London
Out of war, or into one?
Truman's 12 points
Cards on the table - face upwards
Nationalism and liberation
Foreign secretaries to meet in Moscow
International stocktaking 1945
Foreign secretaries in Moscow - agreements on procedures for peace
Moscow and after - the outlook for 1946
Four-power plan for Japanese disarmament
Peace conference: plus ca change ...
Open diplomacy at the Paris Conference
Soviets demand revision of Turkish Straits Treaty
This reparations business
Evatt and Molotov tussle over terms of peace
Moscow Conference III wraps up

Part 4: economic aftermath of war, and reconstruction
The freedoms of the air
Anglo-Soviet relations and the Black Sea Straits
Lend-lease and markets
Moves to free trade
Food and peace
Lines of credit and lines of policy
Freedom of the air
The economic aftermath of the war
Wool over their eyes
American aid and ideologies of trade
The World Trade Charter
Peace and plenty
By the banks of the Danube (conference on the navigation of the river)

Part 5: criminal aftermath of war
War crimes and diplomacy
The men of Belsen
War crimes trial opens in Nuremburg
Japanese war criminals on trial

Part 6: disarmament and the control of nuclear weapons
Disarmament without fears
The way of man with the atom

Part 7: UK relations with US, USSR, and the Commonwealth
The Prime Ministers' conference and British-American relations
When is an ally not an ally? - the future of the Anglo-Soviet Alliance
From American aid towards world depression
Attlee's dream
The need for reform in the UK-Commonwealth relations
American bread upon the waters - complexities of the Marshall Plan
The British Commonwealth and European Union

Part 8: the evolution of the Cold War
Peace, Potsdam, and the atomic bomb
Atom politics and the atomic age
Nuclear capabilities; spy hunt in Canada
Russian aims and the Russian walk-out
Mr Byrnes gets tough
Planning for the atomic age
Soviet American relations and the Canadian arctic
Atoms and the man - recent developments on the atomic front
State socialism and Anglo-Soviet relations
Warring words and words of war - a commentary on the big speeches of the big three
Armies at home and abroad
The Spitsbergen question
America's perimeter of defence
Regionalism and the Western Bloc
International police and international politics
Checkmate or stalemate? Why Russia sticks to UNO, and how
The diplomacy of attraction
Atomic bombast
The outlook for the fifth Council of Foreign Ministers
The might dollar in a matey world
And then there were two (great powers)
Truth by nationality - aftermath of a collision
Yugoslavia on the international frontier
Air lift over Berlin
Berlin crisis - a trigger for war?
Berlin - crisis of war or of negotiation?

Part 9: the press and democracy
The press and the peace

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VOLUME 2

Part 1: decolonisation
Colonial trusteeship - end or beginning
Strategy and welfare in Australian colonial policy
Trusteeship and annexation
Ideals and practicalities in New Guinea policy
Trusteeship in Western Samoa: interview with Dr Guy Chapman
Dutch policing and Dutch policy in Indonesia
The Indonesian question before the United Nations
Australia's record in New Guinea under scrutiny

Part 2: continents and regions
Europe
The Potsdam Conference and the new governments in Europe
The Potsdam Agreement and the future of Europe I
The Potsdam Agreement and the future of Europe II
Potsdam Agreement - implications for Poland, Germany, other European countries
The Italian peace or the first prodigal's return
Britain's first line of defence
Western view of the Franco regime
The problem of fascist Spain
The Danube - and all that
The fall and rise of General Franco
The Labour rebellion
Realism in British foreign policy
The Greek tragedy
The second Labour rebellion
First aid or last rites for Britain - the American choice
Anglo-French alliance and the British Commonwealth
What price France?
Jan Masaryk - a European tragedy
What the walrus said - European security
How to win friends and influence people - some thoughts on the Italian elections
Churchill and the dream of a united Europe
For both peace and war - Churchill's concept of European union
Two's a duel, three's a brawl - who's who in Germany and Japan
The Near and the Middle East
Turkey and Persia
Persia challenges Soviets over Azerbaijan
Soviet-Persian conflict
Palestine conference
British famine and corn in Egypt
A study of oil on troubled waters
Palestine partition before UNO - the second phase
The last holy war
The odds in Palestine
Non-intervention in Palestine - with some reflections on republican Spain
The truce in Palestine
Ceasefire in Palestine
Asia
Wanted - a Potsdam for Asia
The month in Tokyo
Democracy and power in occupied Japan
UK, Australia protest decision to permit Japanese resumption of whaling
Democracy on the march - in Japan
The challenge of India
An experiment in Marshall diplomacy
The Vietnamese claim for Vietnam
MacArthur calls for end of Japan occupation
Trade and the flag in occupied Japan
The devil in east Asia
Australia and the Pacific region
Australia and imperial foreign policy
Australian defence and Pacific peacemaking
Australia and the Pacific Settlement
The South Pacific Conference
Dr Evatt and US policy in the Pacific
The 40-hour week and the crisis of democracy
The Americas
Coal strike in the US
American labour - prospect and retrospect
The Monroe Doctrine and the American century
The American hemisphere and the American century
Un-American activities
Around Panama
Ideals and power in American diplomacy
Antarctica and the Falklands - South American powers challenge
The tragedy of American aid
In quest of an American foreign policy
With intent towards all, and malice towards none

Part 3: the jurisprudence of international relations
Peace and peaceful settlement
World order and human rights
To veto or not to veto
Ideologies, bad manners and good diplomacy
Crime and punishment in the international community
Big states, little states, beggarmen and thieves
The importance of defeat
Australian proposal for international court on human rights
Peace and change in the peace treaties
US accepts jurisdiction of International Court of Justice
Nuremberg Trial - the question of aggression
Human rights and human wrongs
'Bless thee, UNO, bless thee, thou art translated!' - commentary on the Marshall Plan for the United Nations
International law in the South American jungle
UNO and super UNO - proposal for a supreme international council
Revision of the veto - the Little Assembly of the United Nations
Federate or perish - the call for a federal union of world states

Part 4: signing off on the 1940s - overview and insight
The un-American committee on un-American activities - the problem of intellectual freedom, with a note on the assassination of Count Bernadotte
On the steps of the Palais de Chaillot - the problem of indoctrination
World conflict and race conflict
The British heritage - with a 'back-in-a-year' greeting to listeners

A glossary of conferences, organisations, reports and treaties
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