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National Archives of Australia, Canberra. Material from the series:

A1. Department of External Affairs: Correspondence files, annual single number series [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1890–1968.

A425. Department of Trade and Customs: Correspondence files, annual single number series [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1935–.

A432. Attorney-General’s Department: Correspondence files, annual single number series [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1857–.

A463. Prime Minister’s Department: Correspondence files, annual single number series with occasional ‘G’ [General Representations] infix [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1903–.

A518. Prime Minister’s Department: Correspondence files, multiple number series with alphabetical prefix, 1899–1983.

A571. Department of the Treasury: Correspondence files, multiple number series with year prefix [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1901–78.

A601. Department of Commerce: Correspondence files, multiple number series, 1935–48.

A816. Department of Defence: Correspondence files, multiple number series [Classified 301] [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1928–62.

A981. Department of External Affairs: Correspondence files, alphabetical series, 1927–42.

A989. Department of External Affairs: Correspondence files, multiple number series with year prefix [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1927–45.

A1068. Department of External Affairs: Correspondence files, multiple number series with year prefix [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1933–71.

A1196. Department of Defence: Correspondence files, multiple number series [Class 501] [501–539] [Classified] [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1936–60.

A1209. Prime Minister’s Department: Correspondence files, annual single number series [classified] with occasional C [classified] suffix [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1913–.

A1667. Department of Trade and Customs: International trade relations files, multiple number series [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1925–56.

A1838. Department of External Affairs: Correspondence files, multiple number series with year prefix [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1914–93.

A2694. Secretary to Cabinet/Cabinet Secretariat: Lyons and Page Ministries—Folders and bundles of minutes and submissions, 1932–39.

A2910. Australian High Commission, United Kingdom [London]: Correspondence files, multiple number series (Class 400), 1913–60.

A3196. Prime Minister’s Department: Master sheets (used stencils) of outwards cables, annual single number series, 1939–49.

A3300. Australian Legation United States of America: Correspondence files, annual alphabetical series (Washington), 1939–87.

A4355. Australian Mission, Political Representative to Allied Forces, Netherlands East Indies [Batavia], Correspondence files, multiple number series [first system, Djakarta/Jakarta] [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 1946–50.

A4719. Department of External Affairs: Volumes of microfilm printout of the personal papers of Sir George Pearce (compiled by Dr J.S. Cumpston), 1907–37.

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CP290/6. Prime Minister’s Department: Miscellaneous cables, 1937–43.

CP4/2. Prime Minister’s Department: Records relating to the Imperial Conference, 1937.

CP78/32. Governor-General: Decoded copies of telegrams exchanged between the Governor-General and the Secretary of State in connection with the ‘Chanak Incident’ with Turkey, 1922–24.

M58. Department of Commerce and Agriculture: Miscellaneous items including alphabetical electorate, general filing, and personal items, 1915–82.

M100. Australian High Commission London: Monthly War Files, 1939–45.

M2236. Australian High Commission, United Kingdom [London]—Office of the High Commissioner: Official papers and correspondence maintained by Stanley Melbourne Bruce in London, 1932–45.

The National Archives, Kew. Material from the series:

ADM 116. Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies, Admiralty: Record Office: Cases.

CAB 2. Records of the Cabinet Office, Committee of Imperial Defence and Standing Defence Sub-committee: Minutes.

CAB 21. Records of the Cabinet Office, Cabinet Office and predecessors: Registered Files (1916 to 1965).

CAB 23. Records of the Cabinet Office, War Cabinet and Cabinet: Minutes.

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CAB 129. Records of the Cabinet Office, Cabinet: Memoranda (CP and C Series).

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DO 35. Records created or inherited by the Dominions Office, and of the Commonwealth Relations and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, General Records of the Dominions Office.

FO 141. Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office, Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Egypt—General Correspondence.

FO 371. Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office, Foreign Office: Political Departments—General Correspondence from 1906–66.

Manuscript collections

National Library of Australia, Canberra. Material from the series:

MS 987. Papers of J.J. Dedman.

MS 1009. Papers of John Latham.

MS 4851. Papers of J.A. Lyons.

MS 4875. Papers of Percy Spender.

MS 5700. Papers of William Douglass Forsyth.

TRC 121/27. William Douglass Forsyth interviewed by Mel Pratt, January–February 1972, Corrected transcript.

Hansard

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Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates: House of Representatives. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates: Senate. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

United Kingdom. Parliamentary Debates: House of Commons. Available from: api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/index.html.

Published documents

Aandahl, Frederick, Franklin, William M. and Slany, William, eds. Foreign Relations of the United States: The Conferences at Washington, 1941–1942, and Casablanca, 1943. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1958.

Andre, Pamela, ed. Documents on Australian Foreign Policy 1937–49. Volume 14: The Commonwealth, Asia and the Pacific, 1948–49. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1998.

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Churchill, Rogers P. and Sappington, N.O., eds. Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1935, The British Commonwealth; Europe, Volume II. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1952.

Churchill, Rogers P., Axton, Matilda F., Landau, Shirley L., Sappington, N.O. and Carroll, Kieran J., eds. Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1934, General, the British Commonwealth, Volume I. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1950.

Churchill, Rogers P., Sappington, N.O., Carroll, Kieran J., Giffen, Morrison B. and Prescott, Francis C., eds. Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1940, The British Commonwealth, The Soviet Union, The Near East and Africa, Volume III. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1958.

Copland, D.B. and Janes, C.V., eds. Australian Trade Policy: A Book of Documents. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1937.

Crawford, John G., ed. Australian Trade Policy 1942–66: A Documentary History. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1968.

Crowley, F.K., ed. Modern Australia in Documents. Volume 2: 1939–1970. Melbourne: Wren Publishing, 1973.

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Lowe, David and Oakman, Daniel, eds. Documents on Australian Foreign Policy. Volume 24: Australia and the Colombo Plan, 1949–1957. Canberra: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2004.

Mabon, David W., ed. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, East Asia and the Pacific, Volume XII, Part 1. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1984.

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Perkins, E. Ralph, Gleason, S. Everett, Reid, John G., Glennon, John P., Sappington, N.O., Slany, William, Cassidy, Velma Hastings and Reynolds, Warren H., eds. Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1944, The British Commonwealth and Europe, Volume III. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1965.

Petersen, Neil H., ed. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Indochina, Volume XIII, Part 1. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1982.

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Contemporary government publications, statistical collections and records of proceedings

Congressional Record, 67th Congress, 2nd Session. Washington, DC: The United States Congress, 1923.

Gepp, Herbert. Report on Trade between Australia and the Far East. Canberra: Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1932.

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Treaty

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McEwen, John and Jackson, Robert V. John McEwen: His Story. Canberra: Printed privately, 1983.

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Page, Earl. Truant Surgeon: The Inside Story of Forty Years of Australian Political Life. Ann Mozley, ed. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1963.

Newspapers/magazines

The Age (Melbourne)

The Argus (Melbourne)

Army News (Darwin)

The Australian Worker (Sydney)

The Brisbane Courier (Brisbane)

The Courier-Mail (Brisbane)

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List (Sydney)

The Gazette Times (Pittsburgh)

The Herald (Melbourne)

The New York Times (New York)

The Sun (Sydney)

Sunday Times (Perth)

Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney)

Telegraph (Brisbane)

The Times (London)

Tweed Daily (Murwillumbah, NSW)

Secondary sources

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Andrews, Eric M. The Writing on the Wall: The British Commonwealth and Aggression in the East, 1931–1935. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987.

Australian Association of British Manufacturers. One-Way Traffic: Australia’s Trade with the United States. Melbourne: Australian Association of British Manufacturers, 1931.

Barnett, Correlli. The Collapse of British Power. London: Eyre Methuen, 1972.

Bell, Coral. Dependent Ally: A Study in Australian Foreign Policy. 2nd edn. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Bell, Roger J. Unequal Allies: Australian–American Relations and the Pacific War. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977.

Bird, David S. J.A. Lyons: The ‘Tame Tasmanian’—Appeasement and Rearmament in Australia, 1932–39. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008.

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George, Margaret. Australia and the Indonesian Revolution. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1980.

Golding, Peter. Black Jack McEwen: Political Gladiator. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996.

Goldsworthy, David. Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain’s Empire. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002.

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Gyngell, Allan. Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942. Melbourne: Black Inc., 2017.

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Watt, D.C. How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989.

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Edited collections

Attard, Bernard. ‘Financial Diplomacy.’ In Between Empire and Nation: Australia’s External Relations from Federation Until the Second World War, edited by Carl Bridge and Bernard Attard, 92–109. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000.

Beaumont, Joan. ‘Australia’s War: Asia and the Pacific.’ In Australia’s War, 1939–45, edited by Joan Beaumont, 26–53. Sydney: Routledge, 1996. doi.org/10.4324/9781003115007-2.

Beaumont, Joan. ‘Making Australian Foreign Policy, 1941–69.’ In Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making, 1941–1969, edited by Joan Beaumont, Christopher Waters, David Lowe and Garry Woodard, 1–18. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003.

Bridge, Carl. ‘“The Other Blade of the Scissors”: Richard Gardiner Casey, Australia’s First Minister to the United States, 1940–1942.’ In Diplomats at War: British and Commonwealth Diplomacy in Wartime, edited by Christopher Baxter and Andrew Stewart, 127–48. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2008.

Carroll, Peter. ‘Australia, ECOSOC and the UN Specialised Agencies.’ In Australia and the United Nations, edited by James Cotton and David Lee, 191–227. Canberra: Longueville Books with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2012.

Day, David. ‘27 December 1941 Prime Minister Curtin’s New Year Message: Australia “Looks to America”.’ In Turning Points in Australian History, edited by Martin Crotty and David Roberts, 129–42. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008.

Day, David. Brave New World: Dr H.V. Evatt and Australian Foreign Policy, 1941–1949. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1996.

Day, David. ‘Pearl Harbour to Nagasaki.’ In Munich to Vietnam: Australia’s Relations with Britain and the United States Since the 1930s, edited by Carl Bridge, 52–69. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1991.

Dennis, Peter. ‘Australia and Indonesia: The Early Years.’ In Australia and the End of Empires: The Impact of Decolonisation on Australia’s Near North, 1945–65, edited by David Lowe, 43–52. Geelong, Vic.: Deakin University Press, 1996.

Dennis, Peter. ‘Australia and the “Singapore Strategy”.’ In Sixty Years On: The Fall of Singapore, edited by B. Farrell and S. Hunter, 29–41. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2002.

Eccles, R. ‘Australian Perspectives and the Balfour Declaration of 1926.’ In Dependency? Essays in the History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy, edited by John McCarthy, 23–37. Canberra: University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1989.

Edwards, P.G. ‘The Rise and Fall of the High Commissioner: S.M. Bruce in London 1933–1945.’ In Australia and Britain: Studies in a Changing Relationship, edited by A.F. Madden and W.H. Morris-Jones, 39–56. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1980.

Evans, Gareth. ‘The Labor Tradition: A View From the 1990s.’ In From Evatt to Evans: The Labor Tradition in Australian Foreign Policy, edited by David Lee and Christopher Waters, 11–22. Canberra: Allen & Unwin with the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 1997.

Fitzpatrick, John. ‘European Settler Colonialism and National Security Ideologies in Australian History.’ In Middling, Meddling, Muddling: Issues in Australian Foreign Policy, edited by Richard Leaver and David Cox, 91–119. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997.

Fry, Gregory E. ‘International Cooperation in the South Pacific: From Regional Integration to Collective Diplomacy.’ In The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation: Comparative Case Studies, edited by W. Andrew Axline, 136–77. London: Pinter Publishers, 1994.

Fry, Gregory E. ‘The Politics of South Pacific Regional Cooperation.’ In The South Pacific: Problems, Issues and Prospects, edited by Ramesh Thakur, 169–81. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12519-7_11.

Hajime, Shimizu. ‘Japanese Economic Penetration into Southeast Asia and the Southward Expansion School of Thought.’ In International Commercial Rivalry in Southeast Asia in the Interwar Period, edited by Shinya Sugiyama and Milagros C. Guerrero, 11–39. Newhaven, CT: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1994.

Harris, Stuart. ‘The Separation of Economics and Politics: A Luxury We Can No Longer Afford.’ In Academic Studies and International Politics: Papers of a Conference Held at The Australian National University, June 1981, edited by Coral Bell, 75–83. Canberra: Department of International Relations, The Australian National University, 1982.

Henry, Adam Hughes. ‘John Burton: Forgotten Mandarin?’ In The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins: Australian Government Administration in the Post-War Reconstruction Era, edited by Samuel Furphy, 219–32. Canberra: ANU Press, 2015. doi.org/10.22459/sdam.07.2015.12.

Jones, Paul. ‘Trading in a “Fool’s Paradise”? White Australia and the Trade Diversion Dispute of 1936.’ In Relationships: Japan and Australia, 1870s – 1950s, edited by Vera Mackie and Paul Jones, 133–62. Melbourne: University of Melbourne, Department of History, 2001.

Jordan, Matthew. ‘Decolonisation.’ In Australia and the United Nations, edited by James Cotton and David Lee, 34–65. Canberra: Longueville Books with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2012.

Lee, David. ‘Australia’s Defence Policy: A Historical Overview.’ In Australia’s Security in the 21st Century, edited by J. Mohan Malik, 8–31. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999.

Lee, David. ‘Sir John Crawford: Agriculture and Trade.’ The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins: Australian Government Administration in the Post-War Reconstruction Era, edited by Samuel Furphy, 169–82. Canberra: ANU Press, 2015. doi.org/10.22459/sdam.07.2015.08.

Lee, David. ‘Sir John Latham and the League of Nations.’ In League of Nations: Histories, Legacies and Impact, edited by Joy Damousi and Patricia O’Brien, 86–91. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2018.

Macintyre, Stuart. ‘Reading Post-War Reconstruction Through National and Transnational Lenses.’ In Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History, edited by Anna Clark, Anne Rees and Alecia Simmonds, 133–45. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5017-6_9.

McKenzie, Francine. ‘Imperial Solutions to International Crises: Alliances, Trade and the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference of 1932.’ In The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy 1900–2000, edited by John Fisher, Effie G.H. Pedaliu and Richard Smith, 165–87. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46581-8_7.

Macmahon Ball, W. Intermittent Diplomat: The Japan and Batavia Diaries of W. Macmahon Ball, edited by Alan Rix. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988.

May, Andrew. ‘Fortress Australia.’ In Between Empire and Nation: Australia’s External Relations from Federation Until the Second World War, edited by Carl Bridge and Bernard Attard, 188–204. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000.

Meaney, Neville. ‘Dr H.V. Evatt and the United Nations: The Problems of Collective Security and the Liberal International Order.’ In Australia and the United Nations, edited by James Cotton and David Lee, 105–46. Canberra: Longueville Books with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2012.

Murfett, Malcolm. ‘The Singapore Strategy.’ In Between Empire and Nation: Australia’s External Relations from Federation Until the Second World War, edited by Carl Bridge and Bernard Attard, 168–87. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000.

Newton, Scott. ‘Britain, the Sterling Area and European Integration, 1945–50.’ In Money, Finance and Empire, 1790–1960, edited by A.N. Porter and R.F. Holland, 163–82. London: Frank Cass, 1985.

Nish, Ian. ‘Relations with Japan.’ In Between Empire and Nation: Australia’s External Relations from Federation Until the Second World War, edited by Carl Bridge and Bernard Attard, 130–41. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000.

Palazzo, Albert. ‘The Overlooked Mission: Australia and Home Defence.’ In Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War, edited by Peter J. Dean, 53–69. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139540681.007.

Pemberton, Gregory. ‘An Imperial Imagination: Explaining the Post-1945 Foreign Policy of Robert Gordon Menzies.’ In Menzies in War and Peace, edited by Frank Cain, 154–75. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997.

Reynolds, Wayne. ‘Dr H.V. Evatt: Foreign Minister for a Small Power.’ In Brave New World: Dr H.V. Evatt and Australian Foreign Policy, 1941–1949, edited David Day, 146–57. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1996.

Reynolds, Wayne. ‘Imperial Defence After 1945.’ In Australia and the End of Empires: The Impact of Decolonisation on Australia’s Near North, 1945–65, edited by David Lowe, 119–35. Geelong, Vic.: Deakin University Press, 1996.

Reynolds, Wayne. ‘Menzies and the Proposal for Nuclear Weapons.’ In Menzies in War and Peace, edited by Frank Cain, 116–37. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997.

Rooth, Tim. ‘Ottawa and After.’ In Between Empire and Nation: Australia’s External Relations from Federation Until the Second World War, edited by Carl Bridge and Bernard Attard, 110–29. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000.

Smith, Shannon L. ‘Towards Diplomatic Representation.’ In Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia. Volume 1: 1901 to the 1970s, edited by David Goldsworthy, 61–96. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2001.

Stewart, F.H. ‘Australian Commercial Representation Abroad.’ In Australian Foreign Policy, 1934, edited by H. Dinning and J. Holms. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press for Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1935.

Waters, Christopher. ‘The Great Debates: H.V. Evatt and the Department of External Affairs, 1941–49.’ In Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making, 1941–1969, edited by Joan Beaumont, Christopher Waters, David Lowe and Garry Woodard, 46–61. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003.

Journal articles

Andrews, Eric M. ‘The Australian Government and the Manchurian Crisis, 1931–3.’ Australian Outlook 35, no. 3 (1981): 307–16.

Attard, Bernard. ‘The Limits of Influence: The Political Economy of Australian Commercial Policy After the Ottawa Conference.’ Australian Historical Studies 29, no. 111 (1998): 325–43. doi.org/10.1080/10314619808596076.

‘Australia and Japan Seek Trade Treaty.’ Far Eastern Survey 4, no. 11 (1935): 86–7. doi.org/10.2307/3023029.

Bairoch, P. ‘International Industrialisation Levels from 1750–1980.’ Journal of European Economic History 11 (1982): 269–333.

Barnes, Felicity. ‘Lancashire’s “War” with Australia: Rethinking Anglo-Australian Trade and the Cultural Economy of Empire, 1934–36. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 46, no. 4 (2018): 707–30. doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2018.1452539.

Benson, Erik. ‘Suspicious Allies: Wartime Aviation Developments and the Anglo-American International Airline Rivalry, 1939–45.’ History and Technology 17 (2000): 21–42. doi.org/10.1080/07341510008581981.

Benvenuti, Andrea. ‘Australian Reactions to Britain’s Declining Presence in Southeast Asia, 1955–63.’ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 34, no. 3 (2006): 407–29. doi.org/10.1080/03086530600826140.

Best, Antony. ‘Economic Appeasement or Economic Nationalism? A Political Perspective on the British Empire, Japan, and the Rise of Intra-Asian Trade, 1933–37.’ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 30, no. 2 (2002): 77–101. doi.org/10.1080/03086530208583142.

Best, Antony. ‘The “Ghost” of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance: An Examination into Historical Myth-Making.’ The Historical Journal 49, no. 3 (2006): 811–31. doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x06005528.

Bongiorno, Frank. ‘“British to the Bootstraps?” H.V. Evatt, J.B. Chifley and Australian Policy on Indian Membership of the Commonwealth, 1947–49.’ Historical Studies 36, no. 125 (2005): 18–39. doi.org/10.1080/10314610508682909.

Bongiorno, Frank. ‘The Price of Nostalgia: Menzies, the “Liberal” Tradition and Australian Foreign Policy.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 51, no. 3 (2005): 400–17. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2005.0382a.x.

Boughton, James. Northwest of Suez: The 1956 crisis and the IMF. IMF Working Papers 2000/192. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2000. doi.org/10.5089/9781451859751.001.

Braddick, C.W. ‘Britain, the Commonwealth, and the Post-War Japanese Revival, 1945–70.’ The Round Table 99, no. 409 (2010): 371–89. doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2010.498975.

Bridge, Carl. ‘Appeasement and After: Towards a Re-assessment of the Lyons and Menzies Governments’ Defence and Foreign Policies, 1931–41.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 51, no. 3 (2005): 372–9. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2005.0379a.x.

Bridge, Carl. ‘R.G. Casey, Australia’s First Washington Legation, and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1940–42.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 28, no. 2 (1982): 181–89. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1982.tb00176.x.

Cain, Frank. ‘Venona in Australia and its Long-Term Ramifications.’ Journal of Contemporary History 35, no. 2 (2000): 231–48. doi.org/10.1177/002200940003500205.

Chennault, Claire L. ‘The Chinese Civil War: What We Face in the Far East.’ Vital Speeches of the Day 15, no. 15 (1949): 468–70.

Cooper, Alastair. ‘At the Crossroads: Anglo-Australian Naval Relations, 1945–1971.’ The Journal of Military History 58, no. 4 (1994): 699–718. doi.org/10.2307/2944275.

Cooper, Richard N. ‘Fettered to Gold? Economic Policy in the Interwar Period.’ Journal of Economic Literature 30, no. 4 (1992): 2120–8.

Cotton, James. ‘R.G. Casey and Australian International Thought: Empire, Nation, Community.’ The International History Review 33, no. 1 (2011): 95–113. doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2011.555380.

Cotton, James. ‘William Morris Hughes, Empire and Nationalism: The Legacy of the First World War.’ Australian Historical Studies 46, no. 1 (2016): 100–18. doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2014.995114.

‘Crisis in Asia: An Examination of US Policy, Remarks by Acheson, 12 January 1950.’ Department of State Bulletin: Far Eastern Series 32 (1950): 111–18.

Cumpston, I.M. ‘The Australian–Japanese Dispute of the Nineteen-Thirties.’ The Australian Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1957): 45–55.

Curran, James. ‘“An Organic Part of the Whole Structure”: John Curtin’s Empire.’ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 37, no. 1 (2009): 51–75. doi.org/10.1080/03086530902757704.

Curthoys, R.L. ‘Australia in the Changing East.’ Foreign Affairs 15, no. 4 (1937): 750–6. doi.org/10.2307/20028817.

Devetak, Richard. ‘An Australian Outlook on International Affairs? The Evolution of International Relations Theory in Australia.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 55, no. 3 (2009): 335–59. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2009.1521a.x.

Dobson, Alan P. ‘The Other Air Battle: The American Pursuit of Post-War Civil Aviation Rights.’ Historical Journal 22, no. 2 (1985): 429–39. doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00003216.

Eggleston, Frederic. ‘Washington and After: An Australian View.’ The Nineteenth Century and After 92 (1922): 455–65.

Evatt, H.V. ‘Risks of a Big-Power Peace.’ Foreign Affairs 24, no. 2 (1946): 195–209. doi.org/10.2307/20029959.

Fettling, David. ‘An Australian Response to Asian Decolonisation: Jawaharlal Nehru, John Burton and the New Delhi Conference on Non-Western Nations.’ Australian Historical Studies 45, no. 2 (2014): 202–19. doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2014.911758.

Gurry, Meg. ‘Identifying Australia’s “Region”: From Evatt to Evans.’ Australian Journal of International Affairs 49, no. 1 (1995): 17–31. doi.org/10.1080/10357719508445143.

Harris, Stuart. ‘The Linking of Politics and Economics in Foreign Policy.’ Australian Outlook 40, no. 1 (1986): 5–10. doi.org/10.1080/10357718608444895.

Kobayashi, Ai. ‘Australia and Japan’s Admission to the Colombo Plan.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 60, no. 4 (2014): 518–33. doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12073.

Lee, David. ‘Australia and Allied Strategy in the Far-East, 1952–1957.’ Journal of Strategic Studies 16 (1993): 511–38. doi.org/10.1080/01402399308437531.

Lee, David. ‘Australia, the British Commonwealth, and the United States, 1950–1953.’ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 20, no. 3 (1992): 445–69. doi.org/10.1080/03086539208582880.

Lee, David. ‘Britain and Australia’s Defence Policy, 1945–49.’ War and Society 13, no. 1 (1995): 61–80. doi.org/10.1179/072924795791200178.

Lee, David. ‘Protecting the Sterling Area: The Chifley Government’s Response to Multilateralism 1945–9.’ Australian Journal of Politics 25 (1990): 178–95. doi.org/10.1080/00323269008402117.

Lowe, David. ‘Mr Spender Goes to Washington: An Ambassador’s Vision of Australian–American Relations, 1951–58.’ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 24, no. 2 (1996): 278–95. doi.org/10.1080/03086539608582979.

Lowe, David. ‘Percy Spender and the Colombo Plan 1950.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 40, no. 2 (1990): 162–76. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1994.tb00098.x.

McLean, David. ‘Australia in the Cold War: A Historiographical Review.’ The International History Review 23, no. 2 (2001): 299–321. doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2001.9640932.

Meaney, Neville. ‘Australia, the Great Powers and the Coming of the Cold War.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 38, no. 6 (1992): 316–33. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1992.tb00678.x.

Megaw, Ruth. ‘The Australian Goodwill Mission to the Far East in 1934: Its Significance in the Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy.’ Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 59, no. 4 (1973): 247–63.

Nanto, Dick K. and Takagi, Shinju. ‘Korekiyo Takahashi and Japan’s Recovery from the Great Depression.’ The American Economic Review 75, no. 2 (1985): 369–74.

Newton, Scott. ‘The Sterling Crisis of 1947 and the British Response to the Marshall Plan.’ Economic History Review 37, no. 3 (1984): 391–408. doi.org/10.2307/2597288.

O’Brien, J.B. ‘Empire v. National Interest in Australian–British Relations During the 1930s.’ Historical Studies 22, no. 89 (1987): 569–86. doi.org/10.1080/10314618708595769.

Plimsoll, James. ‘Australia and Ottawa.’ The Australian Quarterly 13, no. 4 (1941): 14–21. doi.org/10.2307/20630973.

Reynolds, Wayne. ‘Beyond White Australia: Australian Education and the Engagement of Asia After the Second World War.’ International Journal of Learning 13, no. 3 (2006): 7–14. doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v13i03/44690.

Robertson, John. ‘Australia and the “Beat Hitler First Strategy”, 1941–1942: A Problem in Wartime Consultation.’ Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 11, no. 3 (1983): 300–21. doi.org/10.1080/03086538308582644.

Rooth, Tim. ‘Economic Tensions and Conflict in the Commonwealth, 1945–c. 1951.’ Twentieth Century British History 13, no. 2 (2002): 121–43. doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/13.2.121.

Rooth, Tim. ‘Imperial Self-Insufficiency Rediscovered: Britain and Australia, 1945–51.’ Australian Economic History Review 39, no. 1 (1999): 29–51. doi.org/10.1111/1467-8446.00037.

Rosenstein-Rodan, P.N. ‘The International Development of Economically Backward Areas.’ International Affairs 20, no. 2 (1944): 157–65. doi.org/10.2307/3018093.

Sissons, D.C.S. ‘Manchester v. Japan: The Imperial Background of the Australian Trade Diversion Dispute with Japan, 1936.’ Australian Outlook 30, no. 3 (1976): 480–502. doi.org/10.1080/10357717608444583.

Sissons, D.C.S. ‘Private Diplomacy in the 1936 Trade Dispute with Japan.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 27, no. 2 (1981): 143–59. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1981.tb00548.x.

Strating, Rebecca. ‘Should Australia Be in the South China Sea?’ The La Trobe Asia Brief 2 (2019): 3–4.

Suares, Julie. ‘Engaging with Asia: The Chifley Government and the New Delhi Conferences of 1947 and 1949.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 57, no. 4 (2011): 495–510. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2011.01610.x.

Tsokhas, Kosmas. ‘Anglo-Australian Relations and the Origins of the Pacific War.’ History 80, no. 260 (1995): 400–20. doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229x.1995.tb01677.x.

Tsokhas, Kosmas. ‘Dedominionization: The Anglo-Australian Experience, 1939–1945.’ Historical Journal 37, no. 4 (1994): 861–83. doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00015120.

Tsokhas, Kosmas. ‘The Wool Industry and the 1936 Trade Diversion Dispute Between Australia and Japan.’ Australian Historical Studies 23, no. 93 (1989): 442–61. doi.org/10.1080/10314618908595823.

Umetsu, Hiroyuki. ‘The Origins of the British Commonwealth Strategic Reserve: The UK Proposal to Revitalise ANZAM and the Increased Australian Defence Commitment to Malaya.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 50, no. 4 (2004): 509–25. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2004.00350.x.

Valkoun, Jaroslav. ‘Great Britain, the Dominions and Their Position On Japan in the 1920s and Early 1930s.’ Prague Papers on the History of International Relations 2 (2017): 32–46.

Ward, Stuart. ‘Sentiment and Self-Interest: The Imperial Ideal in Anglo-Australian Commercial Culture.’ Australian Historical Studies 32, no. 116 (2001): 91–108. doi.org/10.1080/10314610108596149.

Waterhouse, Richard. ‘Empire and Nation: Australian Popular Ideology and the Outbreak of the Pacific War.’ History Australia 12, no. 3 (2015): 30–54. doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2015.11668585.

Waters, Christopher. ‘Casey: Four Decades in the Making of Australian Foreign Policy.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 51, no. 3 (2005): 380–8. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2005.0380a.x.

Waters, Christopher. ‘The Macmahon Ball Mission to East Asia 1948.’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 40, no. 3 (1994): 351–63. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1994.tb00109.x.

Westmore, R.D. ‘Japan and the Trade Diversion Policy.’ The Australian Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1937): 93–6. doi.org/10.2307/20629413.

White, Hugh. ‘Powershift: Australia’s Future Between Washington and Beijing.’ Quarterly Essay 39 (2010): 1–74.

White, Hugh. ‘The Limits to Optimism: Australia and the Rise of China.’ Australian Journal of International Affairs 59, no. 4 (2005): 469–80. doi.org/10.1080/10357710500367273.

White, Hugh. ‘Without America: Australia in the New Asia.’ Quarterly Essay 68 (2017): 1–81.

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