Julius Stone (1907–1985) was Challis professor of jurisprudence and international law at the University of Sydney from 1942 to 1972, then adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales, until his death.

• Selected contents – over 100 talks in totalEditor’s PrefaceA review of east-west relations, the attack on intellectual freedom in the US, the move to civil rights in the USDoubt, suspicion and dismay in the US polityJordan annexes Arab PalestineGermany’s will to powerDiplomatic machinery and peace – another call for a ‘new UN’Japan postwar – can there be a peace treaty with all the allies?Germans resurgent, Germany dividedPeace and the will to peaceUK recognition of ChinaMacArthur and Truman at odds over FormosaPreventive war against the Soviet Union – analysisMacArthur’s leadership in Korea under challengeThe dismissal of MacArthur – causes and falloutTruman’s Pacific Pact; Menzies’ view vs. Evatt’sEgypt blockades SuezRearming the defeated – Japan and GermanyThe Anglo-Iranian oil dispute – UK policy failure invites Soviet interventionFear and the political basis of disarmamentThe Bangkok Conference on UNESCO and AsiaIndex