Endnotes - Assessments of the Curtin-MacArthur relationship  
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Peter Stanley, 'Australia under threat of invasion: "He’s not coming south": The
invasion that wasn’t', Australian War Memorial ‘Remembering 1942’ Conference, 31 May 2002, Canberra. Back

 
2. Gavin Long, The Six Years War: Australia in the 1939-45 War, Canberra: The Australian War Memorial and the Australian Government Publishing Service, 1973, pp. 181 and 258. General (later Field Marshal Sir) Thomas Albert Blamey was Commander in Chief, Australian Military Forces and simultaneously Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific Area under MacArthur, the Supreme Commander. Back  
3. Ibid., p. 182. Back  
4. Ibid., p. 258. Back  
5. Peter Edwards, 'Curtin, MacArthur and the "surrender of sovereignty": a historiographical assessment', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 55, 2 (2001), p. 177. Back  
6. Roger J Bell, Unequal Allies: Australian-American relations and the Pacific War, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997, pp. 103-104 cited in Edwards, 'Curtin, MacArthur and "the surrender of sovereignty"', pp. 177-178. Back  
7. Ibid., p. 178. Back  
8. Long, The Six Years War, p. 258. Back  
9. David Horner, High Command: Australia's Struggle for an Independent War Strategy 1939-1945, St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1982, pp. 222-223. Back  
10. Paul Hasluck, The Government and the People 1942-1945, Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1970, p. 349. Back  
11. Ibid., p. 334. Back  
12. Peter Love, 'Curtin, MacArthur and conscription, 1942-43', Historical Studies, 17, 69 (October 1977), p. 505. Back  
13. F T Smith papers, National Library of Australia, MS 4675, no. 34, 20 November 1942 cited in Love, 'Curtin, MacArthur and Conscription', p. 509. Back  
14. Ibid, p. 509, footnote 15. Back  
15. S J Butlin and C B Schedvin, War Economy 1942-1945, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1977, pp. 345, 382 and 393 and Hasluck, The Government and the People 1942- 1945, pp. 297 cited in Horner, High Command, pp. 263-264. Back  
16. Ibid., p. 267. Back  
17. See Horner, High Command, pp. 308ff; Edwards , 'Curtin, MacArthur and the "surrender of sovereignty", p. 179. Back  
18. Ibid., pp. 179-180. Back  
19. Horner, Inside the War Cabinet, p. 122.. Back  
20. Ibid., p. 193 and see Edwards . 'Curtin, MacArthur and the "surrender of sovereignty"', p. 182. Back  
21. David Day, Reluctant Nation: Australia and the Allied Defeat of Japan, 1942-45, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 160, 172, 190 cited in Edwards, 'Curtin, MacArthur and the "surrender of sovereignty"', pp. 182-183. Back  
22. David Day, 'John Joseph Curtin' in Michelle Grattan (ed.), Australian Prime Ministers, Sydney: New Holland Publishers, 2000, p. 234. Back  
23. Gavin Souter, Acts of Parliament. A narrative history of the Senate and House of Representatives Commonwealth of Australia, Burwood: Melbourne University Press, 1988, p. 349. Back  
24. Clem Lloyd and Richard Hall (eds), Backroom briefings: John Curtin's war, Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1997. Back  
25. Ibid., p. 5. Back  
26. Ibid., pp. 13-14. Back  
27. Ibid., p. 15. Back  
28. Ibid., pp. 22-23. Back  
29. Ibid., p. 32. Back  
30. Edwards, 'Curtin, MacArthur and the "surrender of sovereignty"', p. 181. Back  
31. Lloyd and Hall, Backroom Briefings, pp. 80-81. Back