Letters to Australia is a collection of Julius Stone's radio talks,
originally broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission
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. Volume 4
contains 131 essays from 1952 and 1953.These years, like the two
preceding, saw incremental change. The Korean War ended, but only
after long negotiations over the fate and rights of prisoners of
war; the debates over the development of unified economic and
political structures in Europe grew; and, with Stalin's death and
Beria's fall, the Soviet Union began its slow evolution towards
glasnost and perestroika and eventual dissolution, decades later.
In the Pacific, Australia entered a multi-lateral, ANZUS, excluded
the United Kingdom, consolidating the nation's independence of
Britain; Communist China pressed its claims to replace Taiwan on
the Security Council; Queen Elizabeth II began her long reign; and
adventurism by Egypt set the stage for the Suez crisis of 1956. In
Asia, conflict in Vietnam grew, even as war ended in Korea. In
Europe, West Germany grew in economic strength, its position
between east and west still ambivalent; while the Soviet grip on
eastern Europe grew in strength, intensifying their autocracies.
The east-west balance of the great powers, and seemingly endless
talks on nuclear disarmament, continued; but even in that
atmosphere of stalemate, the emergence of NATO and of the Warsaw
Pact as military alliances created some change - the growth of a
sense that a balance of power between East and West could be
sustained, could be lived with. Julius Stone had much to discuss.
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