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David Tothill, 'Evatt and Smuts in San Francisco', The Round Table (Vol. 96, No. 389; April 2007), pp. 178/9, 181, 183, 187-9.
47 Cockram to Stephenson, 23 June 1945, DO35/1884; this was an example of a wider malaise largely resulting from the statements made during the signing of the Anzac Pact. The American military had decided it did not need any help from the Dominions during the final phases of the Pacific war and the result was that British Commonwealth forces played only a peripheral role. In reality the United States appeared to have grown weary of Australian-led demands for a greater say in post-war planning for the Pacific region; Orders, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the Challenge of the United States, pp. 129-30; Bell, Unequal Allies, pp. 159-203.
48 UK Delegation San Francisco to FO, 23 June 1945, DO35/1884; ibid., Cockram to Stephenson, 18 June 1945.
49 Telegram from DO Section, San Francisco Conference to DO, 26 June 1945, DO35/1883; ibid., 'Summary of Reports on Dr Evatt's Press Conference for the United Kingdom Press, Friday 22 June', 23 June 1945.
50 Telegram from Australia HC to DO, 29 June 1945, DO35/1883; ibid, 4 July 1945; Eggleston, who had been a member of the Australian delegation and was not noted for his admiration for Evatt, thought that there was something in the Australian complaint. Whilst he agreed it was difficult to accuse Halifax of being 'disingenuous', his claims that the British had effectively been responsible for the chapter on trusteeship that developed were unfair on Evatt and did not reflect the work he had had put in on the issue, not just at San Francisco but in the years before, Frederic Eggleston to Stanley Bruce, 9 July 1945 (National Archives, Canberra) M100, July 1945.
51 Cranborne to Evatt, 25 June 1945, DO35/1883; ibid., Evatt to Cranborne, 26 June 1945; ibid., Cranborne to Evatt, 26 June 1945.
52 Minute by Charles Welsley (FO), 24 August 1945, FO371/50371.
53 Cockram to Stephenson, 2 July 1945, DO35/1883; ibid., minute by Cockram, 2 July 1945.
54 'Debate on the Address', House of Commons Official .Report (Vol. 406), 1 December 1944, pp. 211-12.
55 Batterbee to Cranborne, 20 July 1945, DO35/1119.
56 Cranborne to Emrys-Evans, July 1945, Emrys-Evans Papers; Emrys-Evans lost his Derbyshire South seat at the 1945 general election—he was in good company as so did 31 other ministers or junior ministers in one of the largest ever changes of elected government.
Notes to Conclusion: Brave New World
1 R. G. Casey, Double or Quit (Melbourne, 1949), p. 104.
2 Ritchie Diary, 25 December 1940, Siren Years, p. 81.
3 Speech given at luncheon, 23 February 1942, Attlee Papers, MS.Attlee dep. 4, fol.209-20.
4 Diary, Lt. Colonel C. A. de Candole Papers (Imperial War Museum), 98/35/1.
5 Porter, 'What Did They Know of Empire?', p. 47; Denis Judd, 'Britain: Land Beyond Hope and Glory', p. 20.
6 John O'Sullivan, 'The History of Empire Can Reunite This Divided Nation', Daily Telegraph, 1 September 2007.
7 Cited in H. Duncan Hall, 'The British Commonwealth as a Great Power', Foreign Affairs, July 1945; comments by Heathcote-Smith, 21 August 1945, FO371/50371; McIntyre, 'Clio and Britannia's Lost Dream: Historians and the British Commonwealth of Nations in the First Half of the 20th Century', The Round Table (Vol. 93, No. 376; September 2004), pp. 521-2.
8 Diary, 14 December 1940, Hugh Dalton, pp. 121-2; Bell (ed.), TheHeadlam Diaries, 24 September 1942, p. 334.
9 'Situation in the South-West Pacific', House of Lords Official Report (Vol. 71), 29 January 1942, p. 578.
10 B. J. C. McKercher, 'The Foreign Office, 1930-39: Strategy, Permanent Interests and National Security', Contemporary British History (Vol. 18, No. 3; Autumn 2004), pp. 95, 87.
11 Garner to Costar, 4 February 1944, DO35/1024/75/23.
12 Campbell to Batterbee, 20 May 1940, Batterbee Papers, Box 6/2.
13 Holland, Britain and the Commonwealth Alliance, p. 172.
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