Australia's Foreign Policy

Millar, T. B.

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“…85 And, however exaggerated their fears of Chinese expansion might have been, Southeast Asian nations had "very unacademic apprehensions of what would happen if the Western forces were to pull out". 86 The Indian response was to be markedly different. Nehru, the main architect of India's post-war foreign policy, appeared less apprehensive of the motives of communist states than those of the Western democracies.…”

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Difficult Partners: Indo‐Australian Relations at the Height of the Cold War, 1949–1964

Benvenuti

2011

Aus J of Politics History

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This article aims to make a long overdue re‐examination of Indo‐Australian relations in the early Cold War years. By drawing on available secondary sources, it reassesses the existing literature on Australian engagement with Asia. In so doing, it seeks to understand the reasons why the Menzies government found it so difficult to forge a close partnership with India. Canberra's rather frosty relations with New Delhi during the Menzies‐Nehru years had little to do with Menzies' alleged condescension towards the Asians or his personal antipathy towards Nehru. Rather, it had to do with the two leaders' different readings of Cold War politics as well as their responses to the structural changes taking place at the international level following the end of the Second World War.

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