Letters to Australia [electronic resource] : the radio broadcasts (1942-72). The 1940s. Volume 1.

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Intro -- Letters to Australia -- Letters to Australia -- The 1940s, Volume 1 -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Dedication -- 1 -- The Needs of the Hour: Wartime Broadcasts -- Editors' Note -- The Common Cause -- American Democracy's New Deal -- Fighting Faith No. 1: Faith in Our Cause -- Fighting Faith No. 2: Need We Be Confused? -- Fighting Faith No. 3: The Fascist Challenge -- Fighting Faith No. 4: 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 -- 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? -- 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 ça 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 -- 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 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 Navigation of the River) -- 5 -- Criminal Aftermath of War -- War Crimes and Diplomacy -- The Men of Belsen -- War Crimes Trial Opens in Nuremburg

Japanese War Criminals on Trial -- 6 -- Disarmament and the Control of Nuclear Weapons -- Disarmament Without Fears -- The Way of Man with the Atom -- 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 UK-Commonwealth Relations -- American Bread upon the Waters-Complexities of Marshall Plan -- The British Commonwealth and European Union -- 8

The Evolution of the Cold War

Letters to Australia is a collection of Julius Stone's radio talks, originally broadcast by the ABC between 1942 and 1972.

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