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Book SynopsisThis study examines 324 oral history transcripts and explains the recruitment, training, and deployment of US diplomats. Amid growing feminist hostility to Foreign Service treatment of spouses, some couples resented postings to distant Australasia but most enjoyed a welcoming English-speaking environment. While New Zealand assignments involved complex negotiations with Pacific islanders, diplomats in Australia were powerless to control the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean, including the fortification of Diego Garcia and peace negotiations threatening US Navy access to the port of Fremantle. When the Australian Labor Party won power in 1972 the vulnerability of vital military and intelligence facilities alarmed the US more than opposition to nuclear ship visits that removed New Zealand from the ANZUS alliance in the 1980s. Notable exceptions to a principal focus on diplomats below the highest ranks are Marshall and Lisa Green. After meeting John Stewart Service in post-1945 New Zealand t
Table of ContentsChapter One: Prelude to Pearl Harbour: Joseph Grew versus Stanley Hornbeck Chapter Two: The Eccentric and the Charlatan: Ministers Johnson and Hurley PART TWO: POST-WAR INSIGHTS AND OVERSIGHTS Chapter Three: Glimpses of New Zealand Through the Long Black Cloud of McCarthyism hapter Four: Looking at Regional Variations in Backward Australia Chapter Five: Overlooking Britain: American Hubris Adrift on the Coral Sea PART THREE: IGNORING WHITLAM'S RISE AND WATCHING HIS FALL Chapter Six: Overlooking the impact of the Vietnam War Chapter Seven: Far from Real Friendship: Marshall Green and Gough Whitlam Chapter Eight: US Diplomatic Hostility to Whitlam's Dismissal PART FOUR: A TALE OF TWO OCEANS: ANZUS THREATENED, THEN DESTROYED Chapter Nine: Ignoring Australia while Looking Down on the Indian Ocean Chapter Ten: Staunching the New Zealand Disease in the Pacific PART FIVE: FIFTY YEARS OF EVOLVING ATTITUDES TO RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER Chapter Eleven: The Complexities of Racial Attitudes in Three countries and Two Oceans Chapter Twelve: Looking for Class Conflict but Finding Bob Hawke Chapter Thirteen: Denouncing Australian Sexism While Feminism Stirs the Foreign Service
