Imperialism at Bay: The United States and the Decolonization of the British Empire, 1941-1945

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Book by Roger Louis; Oxford University Press, 1978. 600 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Abbreviations and Locations of Manuscript Collections

Part 1: Introductory and Parallel Themes

1: Trusteeship and Imperialism

2: The Future of South-East Asia and the Question of the French Colonies

3: The Defence of the Middle East and the Fate of the Italian Colonies

4: American Security and the Controversy Over the Japanese Mandated Islands

5: International Trusteeship

Part II: From the Atlantic Charter to the Cairo Declaration

Article III of the Atlantic Charter -- Self-Determination

7: The Fall of Singapore and the Future of the British Empire Trusteeship Versus Partnership

8: Roosevelt and the American Public's Attitude Towards the Colonial Issue from Pearl Harbor to the Anniversary of the Atlantic Charter

9: Trusteeship and the State Department's Post-War Foreign Policy Advisory Committee in 1942

10: Cordell Hull and the State Department's Trusteeship Planning

11: The British Response to the Developing American Anti-Colonial Campaign Lord Cranborne's Policy of 'We Hold What We Have'. the Beginning of the Colonial Office's Regional Co-Operation Schemes

12: The Crescendo of American Criticism and Churchill's 'First Minister' Speech

13: London and the Dominions in the Winter of 1942-1943. Parent States. the Position of India in Regional Commissions International Accountability

14: The Three Dimensions of American Trusteeship Diplomacy in 1943

15: The British Reaction to the 'Declaration on National Independence'. the Colonial Secretary's Policy Statement of the 13th of July 1943

16: The Military Element in Roosevelt's Trusteeship Planning

17: The Cairo Declaration the Dismemberment of Japan's Empire

Part III: From Cairo to Yalta

18: The Australian-New Zealand Agreement of January 1944

19: Regional Planning in the Colonial Office

20: Isaiah Bowman's Colonial Mission to London, April 1944

21: The Dominion Prime Ministers' Conference of May 1944

22: Roosevelt and the State Department in the Winter and Spring of 1944: The Question of a Growing 'spirit of Imperialism'

23: The American Military's Stand on the Annexation of the Pacific Islands

24: The Colonial Question at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference on International Organization. the Advent of Hilton Poynton and Kenneth Robinson in Trusteeship Affairs

25: The Colonial Office Takes the Initiative. the Poynton- Robinson Project on 'International Aspects of Colonial Policy'

26: The Australian-New Zealand Conference of November 1944

27: Washington in the Winter of 1944-1945. the Advent of Sir Frederick Eggleston as Australian Minister. Arthur Creech Jones and the Institute of Pacific Relations Conference at Hot Springs

28: Prelude to Yalta the Colonial Secretary's Visit to Washington in January 1945

29: Yalta: Agreement on the Trusteeship Formula

Part IV: The Colonial Settlement of 1945

30: The Aftermath of Yalta London

31: The Aftermath of Yalta Washington

32: The International Conference Before San Francisco: The Commonwealth Meeting in London, April 1945

33: San Francisco: The Resolution of the 'strategic Trust' Controversy and the Foundation of Colonial Accountability

34: San Francisco: The Question of Colonial Independence

35: Strategic Security and the Colonial Situation in 1945

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