This is the first of three volumes of documents on Australian policy toward Indonesia if the years 1947-49.498 cablegrams, dispatches and other documents tell the story of Australian diplomacy in 1947, revealing for the first time the full extent and depth of Australia's support for the embattled Indonesian Republic.
Drawing upon extensive archival research, this volume continues the story of Australia's early relations with Indonesia and the diplomacy of Indonesian independence. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Australia's political and economic engagement in Asia.
This is the second of three volumes of documents on Australian policy toward Indonesia in the years 1947-49. It begins with the negotiation of the Renville Agreement in January 1948 and ends with the launching of the second Dutch police action against the Republic in December 1948, Episodes and issues covered include the efforts of Justice R. C. Kirby, Australia's representative on the Committe…
Indonesia's independence was an early and critical test of Australia's capacity to respond positively to change in Asia. Before the Second World War much of Aus- tralia's 'near north' was controlled by one or other of the European colonial powers. After the war Asia was transformed as the Philippines, India, Pakistan and Ceylon attained independence. In French Indochina and the Netherlands East…