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3 Hankinson to Cranborne, 18 February 1944, CAB66/48/19.
4 Peter Lyon, 'Great Britain and Australia' in H. G. Gelber (ed.), Problems of Australian Defence (Melbourne, 1970), pp. 70, 76.
5 Hankinson to Stephenson, 26 May 1944, DO35/1118; he would later become British Ambassador in Dublin.
6 Hasluck, Diplomatic Witness, p. 117.
7 Minute by Cranborne, 11 December 1943, DO35/1118.
8 Malcolm McKinnon, Independence and Foreign Policy: New Zealand in the World since 1935 (Auckland, 1993), p. 44.
9 Attlee to Churchill, 11 March 1943, DO121/10B.
10 Batterbee to Cranborne, 22 February 1944, DO35/1119.
11 Lt. T. A. Gibson, '"Bayonets About the Crown": The Record of the Australian Army in the Second World War', The Army Quarterly (Vol. 56; April and July 1948), pp. 167-70; Grey, The Military History of Australia, pp. 177-80; David Dilks, 'Britain, the Commonwealth and the Wider World 1939-1945', Paper Given at the 'International Conference on the Contribution of the Commonwealth to the War Effort, 1939-1945', Oxford, April 1998, pp. 12-13 (I am grateful to Dr Ashley Jackson for sharing this paper).
12 Cross to Cranborne, 27 January 1944, DO35/1993.
13 Speech by Curtin, 17 January 1944, WO106/3419; ibid., Speech by Fraser, 17 January 1944; 'Defence of the South-West Pacific Region', Press Statement by the Prime Minister of Australia, Canberra, 18 January 1944.
14 'Charter for Down Under', Time, 31 January 1944.
15 On a map prepared within the WO the Australian 'offer' to police territories until such time as the United Nations organization was established was laid out: Java, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides chain were all clearly marked, forming a security umbrella that stretched along the entire northern Australian littoral.
16 Cross to DO (telegram), 18 January 1944, WO106/3419; Curtin had also assured the high commissioner, and told him that he should repeat the same to London, that the next stage to the talks would be to discuss the initial findings with the British government, most likely at the prime minister's conference, before discussing them with anybody else. The final post-conference announcement failed to include any reference to discussions with the British government.
17 Cross to DO (telegram), 26 January 1944, WO106/3419.
18 'Impressions of a New Zealand Official in his Return from the Australia-New Zealand Conference at Canberra, 31st January 1944', Note by F. E. Cuming-Bruce, 7 February 1944, DO35/1993; ibid., Batterbee to Machtig, 9 February 1944.
19 Sir A. D. McIntosh Papers (Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington), MS-Papers-6759-459, p. 486.
20 Cross to Cranborne, 13 January 1944, DO121/11; Evatt visited London in mid-1942 and was so charmed by the prime minister that he subsequently 'would not hear a word against him'. His return to Canberra with the news that Churchill was 'a very great man' swept Australia and feeling towards Britain began to abate. Cross to Cranborne, 13 January 1944, DO121/11; Cross to DO (Telegram No. 74), 19 January 1944, WO106/3419; T. B. Millar, 'The Australia-Britain Relationship', The Round Table (Vol. 67; 1977), p. 195.
Batterbee to DO (Telegram), 1 February 1944, WO106/3419; McIntosh to Bernedsen, 3 February 1944 in Ian McGibbon (ed.), Undiplomatic Dialogue, Letters between Carl Berendsen and Alister McIntosh 1943-1953 (Auckland, 1993).
'Australia-New Zealand Agreement of 21st January 1944', Memorandum by Cranborne, 2 February 1944, CAB66/46/20; 'Extract from the Conclusions of the 17th(44) Meeting of the War Cabinet', 9 February 1944, WO106/3419.