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Queen Elizabeth’s visit showed a strong remaining affection for the crown, despite the nation’s shift of its power alliances to the USA. In the USA, McCarthyism crashed with the discrediting of its leading figure; in Argentina, the autocratic populist movement of Peron came to an end; West Germany continued its spectacular economic growth; and Yugoslavia made a bid for neutrality, weakening the Soviet Union’s grip on the Balkan states.

Julius Stone (1907–1985) was Challis professor of jurisprudence and international law at the University of Õ¬Äе¼º½ from 1942 to 1972, then adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales, until his death.

Editors Preface

Selected contents – over 100 talks in total

Economic development in the UK and US; problems of POWs from Korean War; reflections on 1953
Messrs Dulles, Eden, Churchill on Western Defence Strategy
Korean POW problems; pilotless bombers
Royal power and royal influence – reflections on the visit of Queen Elizabeth II
The German Problem and the UK-Soviet Treaty Proposal, and a comment on McCarthyism
Austro-Soviet Treaty and the occupation of Germany; Soviet proposal for European security
Achievements and failures of the Berlin Conference
Mrs Petrov – issues of diplomatic asylum
Diplomatic rupture – Soviet reaction to Australian actions in Petrov Affair
French position in Indochina crumbles; US administration foreshadows veto on UN admission for China
Territorial waters – Peru’s claim, international practice
President Eisenhower’s TV broadcast to the nation: a new technique in foreign policy
Yugoslavia’s bid for neutrality, and differences among European powers
Peron flees Argentina; Mr Casey in Washington; the Soviets respond on disarmament
Atoms for peace, crisis in French politics
Soviet and Western proposals for European security
Crisis in Guatemala – liberation or invasion?
Big Four deadlock on disarmament; France arms Egypt
Reaction to the Soviet h-bomb test; the Baghdad Conference on the Middle East; South Africa moves toward white domination
The UN admits 18 new nations; Soviet overtures to Asia
Japan moves to renew trade with Communist China

Index

Format: paperback
Size: 250 × 176 × 16 mm
288 pages
Copyright: © 2019
ISBN: 9781743326107
Publication: 01 Oct 2019
Series: Letters to Australia