Letters to Australia, 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 Index