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First published in 2014 by Sydney University Press
© Jonathan Stone, Eleanor (Stone) Sebel and Michael E Stone 2014
© Sydney University Press 2014
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Author: Stone, Julius, 1907-1985, author.
Title: Letters to Australia : the radio broadcasts (1942-72) : the 1940s. Volume 1 / Julius Stone ; edited by Jonathan
Stone, Eleanor (Stone) Sebel and Michael E. Stone.
ISBN: 9781743323908 (paperback)
ISBN: 9781743323939 (ebook : epub)
ISBN: 9781743323953 (ebook : kindle)
ISBN: 9781743323922 (Vols 1 & 2, paperback)
Notes: Includes index.
Subjects: ABC Radio (Australia)
Sociological jurisprudence.
Social justice.
International law.
Radio programs--Australia.
Australia--Social conditions--20th century.
Other Authors/Contributors:
Stone, Jonathan, 1942- editor.
Sebel (Stone), Eleanor, editor.
Stone, Michael E. (Michael Edward), 1938- editor.
Dewey Number: 340.115
Cover image by Ulf Kaiser, pen and ink on cardboard. This sketch was created in 1992, when it appeared in The
Australian, with a review by Gordon Hawkins of a biography of Julius Stone by Leonie Star. The Editors are grateful to
the artist for his permission to reproduce the sketch here.
Cover design by Miguel Yamin
No doubt in the future, as in the past, new ages will not dawn without stress and
strain. In facing them, we will betray the past unless we remember constantly that
willingness to listen, discuss and to disagree is as critical in the realm of the spirit,
as habeas corpus is in the realm of the body.
From ‘The British Heritage—with a “Back-in-a-Year” Greeting to Listeners’,
9 October 1948
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Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Dedication
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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
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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?
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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
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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)
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5 Criminal Aftermath of War
War Crimes and Diplomacy
The Men of Belsen
War Crimes Trial Opens in Nuremburg
Japanese War Criminals on Trial
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6 Disarmament and the Control of Nuclear Weapons
Disarmament Without Fears
The Way of Man with the Atom
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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
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8 The Evolution of the Cold War
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Peace, Potsdam and the Atomic Bomb
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Atom Politics and the Atomic Age
218
Nuclear Capabilities; Spy Hunt in Canada
221
Russian Aims and the Russian Walk-Out
223
Mr Byrnes Gets Tough
226
Planning for the Atomic Age
230
Soviet American Relations and the Canadian Arctic
233
Atoms and the Man—Recent Developments on the Atomic Front
236
State Socialism and Anglo–Soviet Relations
239
Warring Words and Words of War—A Commentary on the Big Speeches of
the Big Three
242
Armies at Home and Abroad
245
The Spitsbergen Question
248
America’s Perimeter of Defence
251
Regionalism and the Western Bloc
254
International Police and International Politics
257
Checkmate or Stalemate? Why Russia Sticks to UNO, and How
260
The Diplomacy of Attraction
263
Atomic Bombast
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The Outlook for the Fifth Council of Foreign Ministers
269
The Mighty Dollar in a Matey World
272
And Then There Were Two (Great Powers)
275
Truth by NationalityAftermath of a Collision
278
Yugoslavia on the International Frontier
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Air Lift over Berlin
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Berlin Crisis—A Trigger for War?
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Berlin—Crisis of War or of Negotiation?
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9 The Press and Democracy
The Press and the Peace
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Index
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