LETTERS TO AUSTRALIA is a collection of Julius Stone's radio talks,
originally broadcast by the ABC between 1942 and 1972. Recently
discovered in the nation's archives, they take the reader back to
the mid-20th century, bringing to life the people, events and the
sweep of affairs during World War II and its turbulent aftermath,
the hopes and fears of individuals and nations. They tell much of
Australia's role in that world and that era. More than anyone else
at that time, Julius Stone gave Australians a sense that they were
part of the world and could, and should, seek to influence these
events. Volumes one and two contain essays from the 1940s.Volume
one begins with 13 wartime broadcasts, given with war at its most
threatening for Australia; they are a call to courage in dark
times. The broadcasts became more nuanced when they resumed, in
1945 with the war almost won, and, over the remainder of the
decade, they covered a wide range of issues - the complex aftermath
of war, moves towards disarmament and the control of nuclear
weapons, the shift of power from Britain and Europe to the US and
USSR; the evolution of the Cold War; the birth of the United
Nations; the first moves to European union, and the stirrings of
the fundamentalist violence that is so large a part of today's
conflicts. Volume two completes the 1940s broadcasts, with a series
on decolonisation, and a remarkable set of commentaries on the
events and people nations and regions, starting with Europe and
concluding with the Americas. The volume closes with a series of
talks on the jurisprudence of international relations, and four
insightful end-of-the-decade talks on the key challenges he
believed must be met to maintain intellectual freedom, to counter
the narrowness of indoctrination, to respond constructively to the
threat of racial conflict, and to assert the value and power of
gradual reform.
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