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Facing Asia : A History of the Colombo Plan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (331 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781921666933
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Facing AsiaDDC classification:
  • 338.910959
LOC classification:
  • HC412.O25 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Road to Colombo -- 3. Building a Bridge to Asia -- 4. The Seed of Freedom -- 5. A Good Shoe-horn for our Interests -- 6. Face to Face with Asia -- 7. A Toothpick to Prop Up a Swaying Skyscraper -- 8. Crossing the Frontier -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 'No nation can escape its geography', warned Percy Spender, Australia's Minister for External Affairs, in 1950. With the immediate turmoil of World War II over, communism and decolonisation had ended any possibility that Asia could continue to be ignored by Australia.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Road to Colombo -- 3. Building a Bridge to Asia -- 4. The Seed of Freedom -- 5. A Good Shoe-horn for our Interests -- 6. Face to Face with Asia -- 7. A Toothpick to Prop Up a Swaying Skyscraper -- 8. Crossing the Frontier -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.

'No nation can escape its geography', warned Percy Spender, Australia's Minister for External Affairs, in 1950. With the immediate turmoil of World War II over, communism and decolonisation had ended any possibility that Asia could continue to be ignored by Australia.

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