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PREFACE v
PRELUDE: A FIELD DEFINED 1
1 SEPTEMBER 1939 7
2 THE WORKING OF ‘IMPERIALISM’ 13
3 THE RADICAL CRITICISM 19
4 THE CRITICAL YEAR 32
5 IMPACT OF A LABOUR GOVERNMENT 43
6 DEFENCE POLICY 57
7 THE ELEVENTH HOUR 72
8 EXPLOSION 90
9 WHITHER? 104
10 SETTLING DOWN 113
11 SEARCH FOR UNITY 128
12 AWKWARD MINORITIES 145
13 THE OPPOSITION OPPOSES 163
14 POLITICIANS AND SOLDIERS 173
15 IMPACT OF THE PACIFIC 191
16 A SECOND FRONT 207
17 PYRRHIC VICTORY 228
18 THE SCARCITY OF NEW ZEALANDERS 243
19 STOCK TAKING 262
20 FOOD OR FIGHTING MEN? 277
21 THE POLITICS OF FIGHTING JAPAN 293
22 FOUNDATIONS OF THE FUTURE 303
23 TRUSTEESHIP IN ACTION 327
24 WELFARE AND PEACE 348
25 EAST AND WEST 357
26 SMALL POWER RAMPANT 370
Bibliography 385
Glossary 389

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Title: Political and External Affairs

Author: Wood, F. L. W.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1958, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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