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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
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.
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.
Queen Elizabeth's visit showed a strong remaining affection for the
crown, despite the nation's shift of its power alliances to the
USA. In the USA, McCarthyism crashed with the discrediting of its
leading figure; in Argentina, the autocratic populist movement of
Peron came to an end; West Germany continued its spectacular
economic growth; and Yugoslavia made a bid for neutrality,
weakening the Soviet Union's grip on the Balkan states.
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.
Letters to Australia, Volume 3 is a collection of Julius Stone's
radio broadcasts on various international issues between 1950 and
1951.
Additional Editors Are Elizabeth G. Korbonski And Janet Cameron
Duffy.
Additional Editors Are Elizabeth G. Korbonski And Janet Cameron
Duffy.
With a New Introductory Essay, Paradoxes of a Sharp Legal Mind:
Professor Julius Stone and International Aggression by Benjamin B.
Ferencz. Efforts to enforce world peace during the twentieth
century through international organizations created a demand for a
legal definition of aggression. A U.N. committee attempted to
provide one in a 1956 report. Stone rejected it for two reasons.
Citing a broad array of examples, he shows that the concept of
aggression eludes definition. More important, he argues that a
definition is not necessary for the goals of international
peace-enforcement.
The years 1956-72 were as eventful as any that had gone before, and
Julius Stone touched on many international issues. The hydrogen
bomb and the space race were popular topics. Decolonisation and
independence in Asia and Africa were covered, especially Indonesia
and South Africa. He spoke about the Cold War, Vietnam War and
relations with China.
Law and the Social Sciences was first published in 1966. Minnesota
Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable
books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions. The author, a
distinguished authority on law, provides an illuminating and
challenging discussion of the social aspects of law and legal
problems. As a background to some penetrating observations, he
takes stock of the contributions and interrelations of the bodies
of knowledge, from both the juristic and the social science side,
which bear upon the study of law at the present time. He is
concerned to show the respects in which jurisprudential ideas in
this area have been stimulated and clarified by work in the social
sciences, and, conversely, to draw attention to the need for the
increased interest of social scientists in this area to take
account of juristic insights, many of them of long standing. He
points out some of the dangers, not limited to waste of effort,
arising from "parochialism" on the part of either the lawyer or the
social scientist. The final section is devoted to a study of the
contributions, potentialities, and limits of behavioralist and
computer techniques in understanding and operating the appellate
judicial process. The book is based on a series of three lectures
given by the author as the William S. Pattee Memorial Lectures
sponsored by the University of Minnesota Law School.
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