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41 Amery to Cranborne, 27 October 1942, Amery Papers, AMEL2/1/34; ibid., Cranborne to Amery, 3 November 1942.
42 It was not merely anti-imperialism that Wilkie suffered from; there was also more than a hint of defeatism on display during his tour. During a stopover in West Africa he had met the British Resident Minister, Lord Swinton, who recorded that he had been 'frightfully gloomy' about the Allied position in North Africa until he had seen the position in Egypt which 'entirely changed his outlook', Swinton to Cranborne, 11 September 1942, Swinton Papers, Swin II 5/5.
43 Attlee to Churchill, 16 June 1942, DO121/10B.
44 Waterson to Smuts, 2 October 1942, Waterson Papers.
45 Massey Diary, 29 July 1942, Massey Papers.
46 Bissell, Imperial Canadian, p. 186; Diary, 2 July 1943, Massey Papers.
47 Cited in David Day, John Curtin: A Life (Sydney, 2000), pp. 522-6.
48 'Curtin Advocates Body to Govern Whole Empire', The Courier Mail (Brisbane), 16 August 1943; 'Empire Council Plan Supported', The Herald (Melbourne), 3 September 1943; 'British Interest in Empire Government Plan', Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 7 September 1943; 'A Council for Empire', The Times, 7 September 1943; 'Doubtful on Empire Parliament Plan', Daily Telegraph, 16 August 1943; 'Curtin's Scheme Not New', Daily Telegraph, 16 December 1943.
49 Sir Earle Page, 'Australia and the War', United Empire (Vol. 33, No. 2; March-April 1942), pp. 36-8; Wing-Commander the Hon. T. W. White, 'Australia's Outlook', United Empire (Vol. 34, No. 4, July-August 1943), pp. 97-101; Sir Ernest Fisk, 'The Empire as an Australian Sees It', United Empire (Vol. 34, No. 6; November-December 1943), pp. 167-70.
50 Emrys-Evans to Wakehurst, 4 June 1943, Emrys-Evans Papers.
51 For example Lord Elton, 'Post-War Role of the Empire', Empire Review (No. 505; June 1943), pp. 13-16; Keith Newman, 'New Trends in Anglo-Australian Relations', The Fortnightly (October 1943), pp. 241-7; Samuel Storey MP, 'Australia Wants Closer Cooperation', Empire Review (March-May 1944), pp. 35-40; L. C. Key, 'Australia in Commonwealth and World Affairs, 1939-1944', International Affairs (Vol. 21, No. 1; January 1945), pp. 60-73.
52 Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts, pp. 440-8.
53 'Peace and Power', Time, 13 December 1943; Kenneth Ingham, Jan Christian Smuts: The Conscience of a South African (London, 1986), pp. 223-30.
54 High Commission, Pretoria to DO, 18 March 1944, DO34/1204; Garner to Pugh, 20 January 1944, DO35/1205—there was also, not unexpectedly, considerable anger at the questioning of France's position; 'Reactions to FM Smuts Recent Speech', 15 December 1943, FO371/34411.
55 Diary, Monday 24 January 1944; Halifax Papers; I am grateful to Professor Greg Kennedy for supplying this reference.
56 Pickersgill, The Mackenzie King Record, pp. 636-41; Andrew Roberts, The Holy Fox: A Life of Lord Halifax (London, 1991), pp. 294/5; Diary, 8 February 1944, Mackenzie King Papers.
57 Halifax to Cranborne, 30 January 1944, DO35/1485.
58 Ibid., Cranborne to Halifax, 9 February 1944.
59 'The Four-Power Plan', Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 8 November 1942, CAB66/30/46.
60 Handwritten comment, 'Foreign Affairs', 17 July 1942, DO35/998/7/48.
61 'The United Nations Plan', Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, 28 January 1943, CAB66/33/44.
62 'The Relation of the British Commonwealth to the Post-war International Political Organisation', Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, 15 June 1943, CAB66/37/44.
63 'Discussion on status and representation of the Members of the British Commonwealth in the International Sphere', Thursday 1 April 1943, DO35/1838.
Notes to Chapter 10: The Private Anzac Club
1 McIntyre, p. 49; Ian Wards, 'Peter Fraser—Warrior Prime Minister' in Margaret Clark (ed.), Peter Fraser: Master Politician (Palmerston North, 1998), pp. 155-6.
2 Alan