US Diplomats and Their Spouses during the Cold War
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9179-9 (ISBN)
This study examines 324 oral history transcripts and explains the recruitment, training, and deployment of US diplomats. Amid growing feminist hostility to Foreign Service treatment of spouses, some couples resented postings to distant Australasia but most enjoyed a welcoming English-speaking environment. While New Zealand assignments involved complex negotiations with Pacific islanders, diplomats in Australia were powerless to control the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean, including the fortification of Diego Garcia and peace negotiations threatening US Navy access to the port of Fremantle. When the Australian Labor Party won power in 1972 the vulnerability of vital military and intelligence facilities alarmed the US more than opposition to nuclear ship visits that removed New Zealand from the ANZUS alliance in the 1980s. Notable exceptions to a principal focus on diplomats below the highest ranks are Marshall and Lisa Green. After meeting John Stewart Service in post-1945 New Zealand they remained for years his loyal defenders against the assaults of McCarthyism. Lisa's interview implicitly but decisively refutes allegations that, as US ambassador to Australia, Marshall plotted the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975. Despite persistent rumors of a CIA coup, declassified cables reveal resident US diplomats' hostility to the governor general's unprecedented action.
Anthony J. Barker is senior honorary research fellow at the University of Western Australia.
Chapter One: Prelude to Pearl Harbour: Joseph Grew versus Stanley Hornbeck
Chapter Two: The Eccentric and the Charlatan: Ministers Johnson and Hurley
PART TWO: POST-WAR INSIGHTS AND OVERSIGHTS
Chapter Three: Glimpses of New Zealand Through the Long Black Cloud of McCarthyism
hapter Four: Looking at Regional Variations in Backward Australia
Chapter Five: Overlooking Britain: American Hubris Adrift on the Coral Sea
PART THREE: IGNORING WHITLAM'S RISE AND WATCHING HIS FALL
Chapter Six: Overlooking the impact of the Vietnam War
Chapter Seven: Far from Real Friendship: Marshall Green and Gough Whitlam
Chapter Eight: US Diplomatic Hostility to Whitlam's Dismissal
PART FOUR: A TALE OF TWO OCEANS: ANZUS THREATENED, THEN DESTROYED
Chapter Nine: Ignoring Australia while Looking Down on the Indian Ocean
Chapter Ten: Staunching the New Zealand Disease in the Pacific
PART FIVE: FIFTY YEARS OF EVOLVING ATTITUDES TO RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER
Chapter Eleven: The Complexities of Racial Attitudes in Three countries and Two Oceans
Chapter Twelve: Looking for Class Conflict but Finding Bob Hawke
Chapter Thirteen: Denouncing Australian Sexism While Feminism Stirs the Foreign Service
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 685 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-9179-5 / 1498591795 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-9179-9 / 9781498591799 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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