Document List
Minister for External Affairs Percy
Spender's account of his meeting with President Harry S. Truman, 13
September 1950
Making the case for a defence arranagement
Minister for External Affairs Percy
Spender's account of negotiating the ANZUS Treaty with United States
special envoy John Foster Dulles and New Zealand Minster for External
Affairs Frederick Doidge in Canberra, 14-18 February 1951
Americans perceived as reluctant
Memorandum by Robert A. Fearey of
the Office of Northeast Asian Affairs, US Department of State: Notes
on conversation among Ambassador Dulles, Australian and New Zealand
Ministers for External Affairs, and staffs, Canberra, 14-18 February
1951
American support for a defence arrangement
US special envoy John Foster Dulles to the Supreme Commander for Allied Powers, General Douglas MacArthur, 2 March 1951
American view of ANZUS treaty
The Security Treaty between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America (the ANZUS Treaty) (the Treaty entered into force on 29 April 1952)
The Treaty
Minister for External Affairs Percy
Spender's message to Patrick Gordon-Walker, United Kingdom Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth affairs, 4 April 1951
Motives for signing ANZUS
Australians support ANZUS but “are
glad to be British”
The impact of ANZUS on national identity
Labor Party leader Dr H.V. Evatt speaks in the House of Representatives debate on ratification of the ANZUS Treaty, 28 February, 4 March 1952.
Reservations about ANZUS