Table of Contents

Foreword

Notes on contributors

Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Frank Cain

The Pacific War: Why did the Menzies Government not see it coming?

Chapter 2 David Tothill

Menzies and the South Africans

Chapter 3 David Lowe

Menzies' National Security State, 1950-53

Chapter 4 Richard Chauvel

Up the creek without a paddle

Chapter 5 David Lee

The origins of the Menzies government's policy on

Indonesia's confrontation of Malaysia e

Chapter 6 David Goldsworth

Menzies, Britain and the Commonwealth: The old order changeth

Chapter 7 Wayne Reynolds

Menzies and the proposal for atomic weapons

Chapter 8 Christopher Waters

The Menzies government and de Gaulle's proposal for the

neutralisation of Southeast Asia 1963-1965

Chapter 9 Greg Pemberton

An Imperial imagination: Explaining the post-1945 foreign policy of Robert Gordon Menzies

Index

About the Author

Frank Cain teaches history at Australian Defence Force Academy. The contributors are Richard Chauvel (VUT), David Goldsworthy (Monash), David Lee (DEFAT), David Lowe (Deakin), Gregory Pemberton (Macquarie), Wayne Reynolds (Newcastle), David Tothill, Chris Waters (ADFA).