Letters to Australia, Volume 1

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

• ForewordsPrefaceDedicationPart 1: the needs of the hour – wartime broadcastsEditor’s noteThe common causeAmerican democracy’s New DealFighting faith no. one: faith in our causeFighting faith no. two: need we be confused?Fighting faith no. three: the fascist challengeFighting faith no. four: democracy’s answerA government of laws and not of menAmerica at our sideChina at our sideA heritage that livesConstitution and liberty in Soviet RussiaAppeasement’s defeatThese peoples will prevailPart 2: the birth of the United NationsThe San Francisco CharterSan Francisco Charter – disarmamentThe American senate and the New World CharterUNO and vetoThe Soviet-Persian issue in the Security CouncilLight and shade at UNOWorld planning in reverse – any progress to world security?Part 3: political aftermath of war, and reconstructionTwo state trials of todayCavalcade of conferences – Atlantic Charter to PotsdamTheories for defeatBlocs and cordons sanitaires and the failure of LondonOut of war, or into one?Truman’s 12 pointsCards on the table – face upwardsNationalism and liberationForeign secretaries to meet in MoscowInternational stocktaking 1945Foreign secretaries in Moscow – agreements on procedures for peaceMoscow and after – the outlook for 1946Four-power plan for Japanese disarmamentPeace conference: plus ça change …Open diplomacy at the Paris ConferenceSoviets demand revision of Turkish Straits TreatyThis reparations businessEvatt and Molotov tussle over terms of peaceMoscow Conference III wraps upPart 4: economic aftermath of war, and reconstructionThe freedoms of the airAnglo-Soviet relations and the Black Sea StraitsLend-lease and marketsMoves to free tradeFood and peaceLines of credit and lines of policyFreedom of the airThe economic aftermath of the warWool over their eyesAmerican aid and ideologies of tradeThe World Trade CharterPeace and plentyBy the banks of the Danube (conference on the navigation of the river)Part 5: criminal aftermath of warWar crimes and diplomacyThe men of BelsenWar crimes trial opens in NuremburgJapanese war criminals on trialPart 6: disarmament and the control of nuclear weaponsDisarmament without fearsThe way of man with the atomPart 7: UK relations with US, USSR, and the CommonwealthThe Prime Ministers’ conference and British-American relationsWhen is an ally not an ally? – the future of the Anglo-Soviet AllianceFrom American aid towards world depressionAttlee’s dreamThe need for reform in the UK-Commonwealth relationsAmerican bread upon the waters – complexities of the Marshall PlanThe British Commonwealth and European UnionPart 8: the evolution of the Cold WarPeace, Potsdam, and the atomic bombAtom politics and the atomic ageNuclear capabilities; spy hunt in CanadaRussian aims and the Russian walk-outMr Byrnes gets toughPlanning for the atomic ageSoviet American relations and the Canadian arcticAtoms and the man – recent developments on the atomic frontState socialism and Anglo-Soviet relationsWarring words and words of war – a commentary on the big speeches of the big threeArmies at home and abroadThe Spitsbergen questionAmerica’s perimeter of defenceRegionalism and the Western BlocInternational police and international politicsCheckmate or stalemate? Why Russia sticks to UNO, and howThe diplomacy of attractionAtomic bombastThe outlook for the fifth Council of Foreign MinistersThe might dollar in a matey worldAnd then there were two (great powers)Truth by nationality – aftermath of a collisionYugoslavia on the international frontierAir lift over BerlinBerlin crisis – a trigger for war?Berlin – crisis of war or of negotiation?Part 9: the press and democracyThe press and the peaceIndex