Reflections: From 1940 to the post-9/11 world

Every student of Australian foreign policy is aware of wartime Prime Minister John Curtin’s ‘turning to America’ article in theHeraldon 27 December 1941. It was dramatic, yet I don’t think as dramatic as Curtin’s short speech to the House of Representatives during the Battle of the Coral Sea in May...

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Hauptverfasser:	Lee, David, Bridge, Carl, Lowe, David
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Zusammenfassung:	Every student of Australian foreign policy is aware of wartime Prime Minister John Curtin’s ‘turning to America’ article in theHeraldon 27 December 1941. It was dramatic, yet I don’t think as dramatic as Curtin’s short speech to the House of Representatives during the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942. That was more redolent of immediate danger delivered as it was at a non-conclusive point in the action: As I speak those who are participating in the action [Australian but overwhelmingly American sailors] are conforming to the sternest discipline and are subjecting themselves with all they have