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The argument of this thesis is summarised at length in the Conclusion. In briefest terms it is th... more The argument of this thesis is summarised at length in the Conclusion. In briefest terms it is that from 1939 to 1950 British political leaders found it expedient to give general verbal support to broad schemes for European integration while at the same time resisting any developments in this field which might have encroached upon the sovereign legal authority of Parliament or have impaired the "special relationship" of the United Kingdom with the United States as co-partner in the leadership of the West. From 1950 to 1960 this resistance took the form of repeated efforts to contain the progress 1'1 of the Community Movement in Europe. In 1960 the apparent triumph of the Community Movement, its endorsement by the United States and the displacement of the United Kingdom by Germany as the second economic power in the West led the British Government to join forces with what had become a successful rival for the "special relationship"

Physics Bulletin, 1974

Glen Barclay London: Arthur Barker 1973 pp 139 price £2 Physicists, engineers and other hard scie... more Glen Barclay London: Arthur Barker 1973 pp 139 price £2 Physicists, engineers and other hard scientists may not know a great deal about the universe in absolute terms but they certainly know relatively more than the vast majority of their fellow men. This of course is making the assumption – probably a reasonable one – that one can equate knowledge of the universe with being able to manipulate it in a reliable and predictable way.

Australian Outlook, 1984

... He did not offer the destroyer Bataan and the frigate Shoalhaven, which were in Japanese wate... more ... He did not offer the destroyer Bataan and the frigate Shoalhaven, which were in Japanese waters, for use in Korea until after the British ... Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali wrote to the President of the UN Security Council on 21 April 1981, asking whether the United ...

Life Writing, 2011

This essay is a reflection on the work of two contemporary artists: Japanese artist Katsushige Na... more This essay is a reflection on the work of two contemporary artists: Japanese artist Katsushige Nakahashi and Indonesian artist Dadang Christanto. Both artists explore issues of history, memory and the commemoration of past lives. Nakahashi has focussed on the subject of the Pacific war (1941–45) and Japan's defeat in that war. The art of Dadang Christanto is dedicated to human rights abuses in every time and place but is also about Indonesia and very specifically about the killings in that nation in 1965–66 and events in Indonesia and East Timor in the 1980s and 1990s. Indonesian art grew out of the struggle for independence and over the last decades of the twentieth century was highly engaged with issues of social justice—but Christanto is one of the very few artists to allude to these specific events. Japanese contemporary artists by contrast have been seen as disengaged from social and political issues and Nakahashi is one of the few in that nation in recent years to raise the traumatic issue of Japan's wartime defeat. For both artists dialogue with audiences is an essential part of their work. This essay is concerned also with analysing the ways artists communicate and engage with those audiences.

Military Affairs, 1975

... GLEN ST.JOHN BARCLAY University of Queensland, Australia SINGAPORE STRATEGY: The RoLe of the ... more ... GLEN ST.JOHN BARCLAY University of Queensland, Australia SINGAPORE STRATEGY: The RoLe of the United States ... Nor could anything more concrete be elicited from the new British Commander-in-Chief Far East, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham. ...

Australian Outlook, 1976

... pull the rug out from under him a second time, by calling a halt to the bom-bardment by air, ... more ... pull the rug out from under him a second time, by calling a halt to the bom-bardment by air, land and sea on November 1. The absolute lack of effective consultation and mutual trust was confirmed by Mr Has-luck's successor as Foreign Minister, Mr William McMahon, in a press ...

Two further science Research Schools were founded in 1967-Chemistry and Biological Sciences. That... more Two further science Research Schools were founded in 1967-Chemistry and Biological Sciences. That began to suggest that a Research School of Humanities was overdue. Yet there were two problems. A push had already begun for a Research School of Earth Sciences. The Universities Commission opposed this on fi nancial grounds and declined to make further provision for it. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir John Crawford, nevertheless pressed ahead and RSES was founded. That, however, made the chance of creating yet one more Research School all the more diffi cult. There was a further issue too. As constructed by that boundarytraverser, Keith Hancock, his Research School of Social Sciences not only already had departments/units of History and Law but of the History of Ideas and Philosophy as well. Hancock indeed had even proposed to add 'Humanities' to its title. The principal lacunae here were studies in the arts, languages, literatures, and their cultural contexts, of ancient and modern Britain and Europe. There was no push, however, for these to be added to RSSS; let alone any suggestion to excise its humanities departments to join them in a separate school. So the only hope was a trimmed down version: a Humanities Research Centre, to which in 1973 the Universities Commission was ready to give its blessing. Its founding in the following year proved, however, to be at a most unpropitious time. For it occurred just as government funding for universities fi rst levelled off and then started on its unending decline. That meant the HRC never secured the funding which it warranted, as this book so o# en details. My own experience suggests, however, that this needs to be put in context. Upon becoming Director of RSPacS in 1973 I was expecting to have two more departments (Sociology and Politics). There were, however, funds for only one (Political and Social Change as we called it). I had an understanding, moreover, that I would not only have a junior but a senior colleague in my fi eld of Indian history to revive its study at ANU. I never had the senior one, and despite a later occupant of the other appointment becoming in the 1980s the most notable world fi gure in the subject, it disappeared as well. The times were out of joint for so many new academic enterprises however great their signifi cance might be. The HRC faced another problem. Because of the diff erences between ANU's Research Schools and its Faculties, a Centre which was most closely associated with the Faculty of Arts but like the Research Schools was wholly commi! ed to research frequently found itself in danger of falling between their two stools. Long awkwardly xiv Humanities Research Centre

History: Reviews of New Books, 1973

The argument of this thesis is summarised at length in the Conclusion. In briefest terms it is th... more The argument of this thesis is summarised at length in the Conclusion. In briefest terms it is that from 1939 to 1950 British political leaders found it expedient to give general verbal support to broad schemes for European integration while at the same time resisting any developments in this field which might have encroached upon the sovereign legal authority of Parliament or have impaired the "special relationship" of the United Kingdom with the United States as co-partner in the leadership of the West. From 1950 to 1960 this resistance took the form of repeated efforts to contain the progress 1'1 of the Community Movement in Europe. In 1960 the apparent triumph of the Community Movement, its endorsement by the United States and the displacement of the United Kingdom by Germany as the second economic power in the West led the British Government to join forces with what had become a successful rival for the "special relationship"

Physics Bulletin, 1974

Glen Barclay London: Arthur Barker 1973 pp 139 price £2 Physicists, engineers and other hard scie... more Glen Barclay London: Arthur Barker 1973 pp 139 price £2 Physicists, engineers and other hard scientists may not know a great deal about the universe in absolute terms but they certainly know relatively more than the vast majority of their fellow men. This of course is making the assumption – probably a reasonable one – that one can equate knowledge of the universe with being able to manipulate it in a reliable and predictable way.

Australian Outlook, 1984

... He did not offer the destroyer Bataan and the frigate Shoalhaven, which were in Japanese wate... more ... He did not offer the destroyer Bataan and the frigate Shoalhaven, which were in Japanese waters, for use in Korea until after the British ... Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali wrote to the President of the UN Security Council on 21 April 1981, asking whether the United ...

Life Writing, 2011

This essay is a reflection on the work of two contemporary artists: Japanese artist Katsushige Na... more This essay is a reflection on the work of two contemporary artists: Japanese artist Katsushige Nakahashi and Indonesian artist Dadang Christanto. Both artists explore issues of history, memory and the commemoration of past lives. Nakahashi has focussed on the subject of the Pacific war (1941–45) and Japan's defeat in that war. The art of Dadang Christanto is dedicated to human rights abuses in every time and place but is also about Indonesia and very specifically about the killings in that nation in 1965–66 and events in Indonesia and East Timor in the 1980s and 1990s. Indonesian art grew out of the struggle for independence and over the last decades of the twentieth century was highly engaged with issues of social justice—but Christanto is one of the very few artists to allude to these specific events. Japanese contemporary artists by contrast have been seen as disengaged from social and political issues and Nakahashi is one of the few in that nation in recent years to raise the traumatic issue of Japan's wartime defeat. For both artists dialogue with audiences is an essential part of their work. This essay is concerned also with analysing the ways artists communicate and engage with those audiences.

Military Affairs, 1975

... GLEN ST.JOHN BARCLAY University of Queensland, Australia SINGAPORE STRATEGY: The RoLe of the ... more ... GLEN ST.JOHN BARCLAY University of Queensland, Australia SINGAPORE STRATEGY: The RoLe of the United States ... Nor could anything more concrete be elicited from the new British Commander-in-Chief Far East, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham. ...

Australian Outlook, 1976

... pull the rug out from under him a second time, by calling a halt to the bom-bardment by air, ... more ... pull the rug out from under him a second time, by calling a halt to the bom-bardment by air, land and sea on November 1. The absolute lack of effective consultation and mutual trust was confirmed by Mr Has-luck's successor as Foreign Minister, Mr William McMahon, in a press ...

Two further science Research Schools were founded in 1967-Chemistry and Biological Sciences. That... more Two further science Research Schools were founded in 1967-Chemistry and Biological Sciences. That began to suggest that a Research School of Humanities was overdue. Yet there were two problems. A push had already begun for a Research School of Earth Sciences. The Universities Commission opposed this on fi nancial grounds and declined to make further provision for it. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir John Crawford, nevertheless pressed ahead and RSES was founded. That, however, made the chance of creating yet one more Research School all the more diffi cult. There was a further issue too. As constructed by that boundarytraverser, Keith Hancock, his Research School of Social Sciences not only already had departments/units of History and Law but of the History of Ideas and Philosophy as well. Hancock indeed had even proposed to add 'Humanities' to its title. The principal lacunae here were studies in the arts, languages, literatures, and their cultural contexts, of ancient and modern Britain and Europe. There was no push, however, for these to be added to RSSS; let alone any suggestion to excise its humanities departments to join them in a separate school. So the only hope was a trimmed down version: a Humanities Research Centre, to which in 1973 the Universities Commission was ready to give its blessing. Its founding in the following year proved, however, to be at a most unpropitious time. For it occurred just as government funding for universities fi rst levelled off and then started on its unending decline. That meant the HRC never secured the funding which it warranted, as this book so o# en details. My own experience suggests, however, that this needs to be put in context. Upon becoming Director of RSPacS in 1973 I was expecting to have two more departments (Sociology and Politics). There were, however, funds for only one (Political and Social Change as we called it). I had an understanding, moreover, that I would not only have a junior but a senior colleague in my fi eld of Indian history to revive its study at ANU. I never had the senior one, and despite a later occupant of the other appointment becoming in the 1980s the most notable world fi gure in the subject, it disappeared as well. The times were out of joint for so many new academic enterprises however great their signifi cance might be. The HRC faced another problem. Because of the diff erences between ANU's Research Schools and its Faculties, a Centre which was most closely associated with the Faculty of Arts but like the Research Schools was wholly commi! ed to research frequently found itself in danger of falling between their two stools. Long awkwardly xiv Humanities Research Centre

History: Reviews of New Books, 1973