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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1058-3947
- eISSN
- 1876-5610
- DOI
- 10.1163/187656194X00012
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
A R T I C L E S " M e r e l y a F a c a d e " ? R o o s e v e l t a n d t h e S o u t h w e s t P a c i f i c Warren F. Kimball Rutgers University (Newark College) In the great game of high politics, the role a n d importance of seem- ingly lesser players is often overlooked a n d eventually forgotten. So it is in histories of World War II for the Southwest Pacific a n d for Aus- tralia, the region's geographically largest nation. So it is for Austra- lian-American relations in the m i d s t of a conflict that reshaped the geopolitical, economic, a n d even ideological face of the entire world. N o t h i n g has made, and continues to make, Australians bitter a n d angry more t h a n to be taken for granted. Britain h a d m a d e a habit of it even as the colony developed its o w n identity as a n
Journal
Journal of American-East Asian Relations – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994