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DAVID MCLEAN (CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY)
Document: Australians support ANZUS but are glad to be British
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Australian Gallup Polls, Nos. 788-99 (August-September 1951).
Comments:
In signing the ANZUS Treaty Australia for the first time in its history became a party to a treaty from which Britain was excluded. Opinion polls from mid-1951 suggest that the majority of Australians, while welcoming the new defence agreement with the United States, nonetheless retained strong sentimental ties towards Britain and continued to regard Australia as a “British” country. Despite the protection that ANZUS seemed to provide, Australians also remained deeply suspicious of Japan.
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