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The Australian embassy in Washington / David Lowe, David Lee and Carl Bridge -- Allies of a kind: three wartime Australian ministers to the United States, 1940-1946 / Carl Bridge -- Norman Makin and postwar diplomacy, 1945-51 / Frank Bongiorno -- Percy Spender and Club America in the 1950s / David Lowe -- "Mr Necessity": Sir Howard Beale, 1958-64 / Matthew Jordan -- Official influence in the making of foreign policy: the Washington Study Group on the South Pacific, 1962 / Christopher Waters -- The ambassador during the Vietnam War: Keith Waller, 1964-70 / Peter Edwards -- "A precious vase": Sir James Plimsoll / Jeremy Hearder -- The career diplomats: Sir Patrick Shaw, Alan Renouf and Sir Nicholas Parkinson, 1974-82 / David Lee -- Australlia's ambassadors in Washington, 1982-89 / David Lee -- Diplomacy in the 1990s: issues for the Washington embassy / James Cotton -- Reflections: from 1940 to the post-9/11 world / Kim Beazley. |
