Additional Sources
Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 55, no.
2 (July 2001).
A special issue on the Australian-American relationship
to mark the 50th anniversary of ANZUS. Incudes David Lowe’s essay,
“Percy Spender’s Quest”.
Bastian, Peter, and Roger Bell (eds.). Through Depression and War:
Australia and the United States. Sydney: Australian-American Fulbright
Commission and ANZASA, 2002.
Includes US and New Zealand perspectives on
ANZUS from Joan Hoff and Erik Olssen.
Dorling, Philip. The Origins of the Anzus Treaty: A Reconsideration.
Bedford Park: Flinders University, 1989.
Argues that the aim of persuading Australia
and New Zealand to cooperate with US and British strategic planning,
especially in the Middle East, was more important to American support
for ANZUS than the desire to secure Australian agreement to a lenient
Japanese peace treaty.
Holdich,
Roger, Vivianne Johnson, and Pamela Andre (eds.). Documents on Australian
Foreign Policy: The ANZUS Treaty, 1951. Canberra: Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2001.
Includes the most important Australian documents
on the making of ANZUS.
Kay, Robin (ed.). Documents on New Zealand External Relations,
vol. III: The ANZUS Pact and the Treaty of Peace with Japan. Wellington:
New Zealand Government Printer, 1985.
An important collection of New Zealand documents,
valuable for the light shed on Australian and US as well as New Zealand
policy.
McIntyre, W. David. Background to the Anzus Pact: Policy-Making,
Strategy, and Diplomacy, 1945-55. New York: St Martin’s Press,
1995.
A detailed, scholarly study of the making and
early development of ANZUS.
McLean, David. “Anzus origins: a reassessment”, Australian
Historical Studies, 24, 94 (April 1990), pp. 64-82.
A revisionist case on ANZUS origins, based on
Australian and US government records.
Meaney,
Neville. “Look Back in Fear: Percy Spender, the Japanese Peace
Treaty and the ANZUS Pact”, in Roger Buckley et al. San Francisco:
50 Years On, Part 2. London: London School of Economics and Political
Science, 2001 (Discussion Paper No.IS/01/426), pp. 31-45.
Argues that “Australia’s compulsive
fear of Japan” motivated Spender’s campaign to persuade
the United States to agree to a security alliance with Australia.
O’Neill, Robert. Australia in the Korean War 1950-53. Volume
1: Strategy and Diplomacy. Canberra: Australian War Memorial and
Australian Government Publishing Service, 1981.
Argues that the commitment of Australian forces
to Korea increased US goodwill towards Australia and created a climate
in which the United States became more receptive to the idea of a Pacific
pact.
Spender, Sir Percy. Exercises in Diplomacy: The ANZUS Treaty and
the Colombo Plan. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1969.
The leading Australian architect of ANZUS gives
his account of how the alliance was made. Has exerted a clear influence
on subsequent historical scholarship.
Starke, J.G. The ANZUS Treaty Alliance. Melbourne: Melbourne
University Press, 1965.
A legal scholar’s early challenge to orthodox
interpretations of ANZUS origins. Although written without the benefit
of archival sources, it remains a valuable study.
US Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States,
1950, Volume 6. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office,
1976.
Pages 1-188 include US government documents
on the 1950 groundwork for the negotiation of ANZUS.
US Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States,
1951, Volume 6, Part 1. Washington, DC: US Government Printing
Office, 1977.
Pages 132-265 contain the most important US
government documents on the negotiation of ANZUS.