Unholy Fury (56 page)

27
   Correspondence, Morrice James to Sir Eric Norris, 29 June 1973, FCO 24/1604, TNA.

28
   Memorandum, Kissinger to Nixon, ‘Meeting with Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam', Washington, n.d, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, VIP Visits, Box 910, NARA.

29
   Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and the Shah of Iran, Blair House, 27 July 1973, Nixon Presidential Materials,
www.nixon.gov
, accessed 15 July 2011.

30
   Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and Green, 28 July 1973, NSC Files, Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 910, RNL.

31
   Telcon, Nixon and Kissinger, 29 July 1973, Nixon/HAK Telcons, RNL.

32
   
Courier-Mail
, 2 August 1973.

33
   
Age
, 1 August 1973.

34
   
Courier-Mail
, 2 August 1973.

35
   Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and Whitlam, 30 July 1973, NSC Files, Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 910, RNL.

36
   
Courier-Mail
, 2 August 1973.

37
   
Bulletin
, 4 August 1973.

38
   Memorandum of Conversation, The President and Prime Minister Whitlam, Washington, 30 July 1973, in
FRUS, 1969–1976
, vol. E-12, Document 38,
www.history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969–76ve12/ch2
, accessed 15 August 2011.

39
   Memorandum of Conversation, William Rogers and Gough Whitlam, 30 July 1973, SNF 1970–73, Box 2105, RG 59, NARA.

40
   Correspondence, Morrice James to Sir Eric Norris, 29 June 1973, FCO 24/1604, TNA.

41
   Correspondence, ME Pike (British Embassy, Washington) to WK Slatcher (FCO), 3 August 1973, FCO 24/1604, TNA.

42
   Memorandum of Conversation, The President with Prime Minister Tanaka, 31 July 1973, NSC Files, Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 927, RNL.

43
   Memorandum of Conversation, Vice President Agnew and Gough Whitlam, 30 July 1973, SNF 1970–73, Box 2109, RG 59, NARA.

44
   EGW, Speech to National Press Club, Washington DC, 30 July 1973,
Australian Foreign Affairs Record
, vol. 44 (August 1973), pp. 527–30.

45
   Department of Foreign Affairs, Policy Planning Paper, ‘Australia's Relations with the United States', October 1973, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 17, NAA.

46
   Transcript, Prime Minister's Questions and Answers at the National Press Club, Washington DC, 30 July 1973, WI, accessed 10 August 2012.

47
   
Australian
, 1 and 11 August 1973;
Bulletin
, 11 August 1973.

48
   
Chicago Tribune
, 1 August 1973;
NewYork Times
, 31 August 1973.

49
   
Australian
, 1 August 1973; Age, 1 and 4 August 1973;
SMH
, 1 August 1973.

50
   Meaney, ‘The United States', pp. 202–3.

51
   
Wall Street Journal
, 21 February 1973.

52
   See for example, Green, ‘The Economic Interdependency of Australia and the United States', Remarks to the American–Australian Association of Victoria, Melbourne, 18 July 1973, Box 10, MGP.

53
   Transcript, Prime Minister's Questions and Answers at the National Press Club, Washington DC, 30 July 1973, WI, accessed 10 August 2012.

54
   Meaney, ‘The United States', p. 204.

55
   Alan Ramsey, ‘Still Paying Court to the Godfather',
Australian
, 1 August 1973.

56
   Unnamed Australian official, quoted in
Age
, 4 August 1973.

57
   
Courier-Mail
, 2 August 1973.

58
   Telcon, Bernard Gwertzman/Kissinger, 31 July 1973, in Nixon Presidential Materials, HAK Telecon transcripts, Chronological File, Box 21, RNL.

59
   Memorandum, John A Froebe to Kissinger, 3 August 1973, NSC Files, Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP visits, Box 910, RNL.

60
   Interview with Marshall Green, 2 March 1995, Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training,
www.memory.loc.gov
, accessed 10 August 2010.

61
   Television Interview, Gough Whitlam and David Frost, August 1973 in
Whitlam and Frost
(London: Sundial, 1974), pp. 133–35.

62
   Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and Lee Kuan Yew, New York, 4 August 1973, NSC, Presidential/HAK Memoranda of Conversations, Box 1027, RNL.

63
   Memorandum, Kissinger to the President, undated (likely late September 1973), NSC Files, Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 934, RNL.

64
   Background Paper, Department of State, ‘Prime Minister Kirk and the New Zealand Political Scene', September 1973, NSC Files, Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 934, RNL.

65
   Memorandum of Conversation, The President and Prime Minister Kirk, Washington, 27 September 1973,
FRUS, 1969–1976
, vol. E-12, Document 41.

66
   
CPD
, H of R, 22 August 1973, pp. 199–202.

67
   Creighton Burns, ‘Whitlam makes the right connection', Age, 1 August 1973.

68
   AFR, 1 August 1973.

Chapter 10: ‘Heating up the Crucible': An Alliance in Peril

1
    Memorandum, WR Smyser to Secretary Kissinger, ‘Australian NSSM', 22 August 1974, ‘Senior Review Group Meeting, 8/15/74—Australia (NSSM 204) (1)', NSC Institutional Files, Box 12 Gerald R Ford Presidential Library (GFL).

2
    Strangio,
Keeper of the Faith
, p. 287.

3
    Airgram A-15, American Embassy Canberra to Department of State, ‘Composition and Biographic Sketches of Australian Labor Cabinet', 25 January 1973, SNF 1970–73, Box 2106, RG 59. NARA.

4
    Telegram, Green to Secretary of State, 30 September 1974, NSA Presidential Country Files, East Asia and the Pacific, Box 2, GFL.

5
    Address by the Prime Minister to the National Press Club, 8 November 1973, WI, accessed 10 June 2013. See also correspondence, Morrice James (British High Commissioner, Canberra) to EdwardYoude (FCO), 14 November 1973, FCO 24/1604, TNA.

6
    Cairns, quoted in Strangio,
Keeper of the Faith
, pp. 277–8.

7
    Memorandum, WR Smyser to Secretary Kissinger, 3 January 1974,
FRUS, 1969–1976
, vol. E-12, Document 44.

8
    Cable 247353, Green to Secretary of State, ‘Discussion with Prime Minister Whitlam', 19 December 1973, RG 59, NARA; Prime Minister's Press
Conference, Bangkok, 1 February 1974, Whitlam Institute E-Collection,
www.whitlam.org
, accessed 10 January 2014.

9
    Record of Conversation, Bruce Grant and Marshall Green, New Delhi, 9 December 1973, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 14, NAA.

10
   Cable 247353, Green to Secretary of State, ‘Discussion with Prime Minister Whitlam', 19 December 1973, RG 59, NARA,
www.nara.gov
, accessed 11 November 2009.

11
   Telegram 6656, Green to Secretary of State, Basic Policy Assessment: Australia, 7 December 1973, RG 59, NARA,
www.nara.gov
, accessed 11 November 2009.

12
   Ibid.

13
   Telegram 1262, American Embassy Canberra to Department of State, 2 March 1974, in
FRUS, 1969–1976
, vol. E-12, Document 47.

14
   Memorandum, ‘Notes on talk with Prime Minister at Kirribilli House on evening of 22 January 1974', Patrick Shaw, 23 January 1974, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 16, NAA.

15
   Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger
, pp. 530f£

16
   Record of Conversation, The Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of Singapore, 15 November 1973, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 16, NAA.

17
   
CPD
, H of R, 22 November 1973,
www.parlinfo.gov.au
.

18
   Age, 9 November 1973, cited in Meaney, ‘The United States', p. 192.

19
   Australian newspaper reactions quoted in Telegram 6371, American Embassy Canberra to Secretary of State, 25 November 1973, RG 59, NARA,
www.nara.gov
, accessed 5 October 2009.

20
   EGW, Age, 16 March 1973, quoted in Meaney, ‘The United States', p. 192.

21
   NSSM 204, ‘Senior Review Group Meeting, 8/15/74—Australia (NSSM 204) (2)', NSC Institutional Files, GFL.

22
   
Australian
, 20 December 1972.

23
   
Australian
, 3 January 1974.

24
   Telecon, Schlesinger/Secretary Kissinger, 8 January 1974,
http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/marketing/index.jsp
, accessed 7 August 2014.

25
   Barnard, quoted in
Age
, 7 January 1974.

26
   Memorandum of Conversation, Secretary Schlesinger's Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Barnard of Australia, Washington, 9 January 1974, in
FRUS, 1969–1976
, vol. E-12, Document 45. DEFCON is short for ‘Defense Readiness Conditions' and contains five scales, with DEFCON 1 being the highest alert possible.

27
   
Australian Foreign Affairs Record
, January 1974, pp. 74–5.

28
   
CPD
, H of R, 3 April 1974, p 905.

29
   Record of Conversation, Alan Renouf and Marshall Green, 4 April 1974, in A1838, 250/9/1, Part 18, NAA.

30
   Minutes of the Acting Secretary of State's Staff Meeting, Washington, 14 June 1974, in
FRUS, 1969–1976
, vol. E-12, Document 48.

31
   Under Secretary Sisco's Principals' and Regionals Staff Meeting, 21 June 1974, Office of the Secretary, Transcripts of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's Staff Meetings, Box 4, RG 59, NARA.

32
   
Australian
, 21 June 1974, cited in Strangio,
Keeper of the Faith
, p. 287.

33
   Under Secretary Sisco's Principals' and Regionals Staff Meeting, 21 June 1974, Office of the Secretary, Transcripts of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's Staff Meetings, Box 4, RG 59 NARA.

34
   Address given by Senator Brown at Declaration of Poll, 25 June 1097, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 19, NAA.

35
   Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger
, p. 515; Tanya Harmer, ‘Fractious Allies: Chile, the United States and the Cold War, 1973–76',
Diplomatic History
, Vol. 37, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 109–44.

36
   See for example Age, 2 June 1974.

37
   Hawke, quoted in Correspondence, GW Hewitt (British High Commission, Canberra) to AR Clark (FCO), 28 June 1974, FCO 24/1904. Marshall Green's papers contain numerous memoranda of his conversations with senior Australian politicians and bureaucrats about Brown's comments. These interlocutors included Lance Barnard, Malcolm Fraser and Alan Renouf. See Box 9, MGP.

38
   Telcon, The Ambassador and Malcolm Fraser, 1 July 1974, Box 9, MGP.

39
   Telegram 4095, Green to Secretary of State, 28 June 1974, Box 9, MGP.

40
   Richard Woolcott, Memorandum, ‘Marshall Green', 1 July 1974, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 19, NAA.

41
   Ibid.

42
   Prime Minister's Press Conference, Parliament House, Canberra, 2 July 1974, in WI, accessed 4 July 2013.

43
   Whitlam, quoted in
Australian
, 5 July 1974.

44
   Telegram 0763, American Consul General (Melbourne) to Secretary of State, 2 July 1974, Box 9, MGP; see also Correspondence, GW Hewitt (British High Commission Canberra) to AR Clark (FCO), 5 July 1974, FCO 24/1904.

45
   Telegram 1315, American Consul General (Sydney) to Secretary of State, 1 July 1974, Box 9, MGP.

46
   Correspondence, GW Hewitt (British High Commission Canberra) to AR Clark (FCO), 5 July 1974, FCO 24/1904.

47
   Meaney, ‘The United States', p. 197.

48
   Correspondence, Patrick Shaw to Secretary of Department of Foreign Affairs, Conversation with Mr Robert S Ingersoll, 26 March 1974, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 19, NAA; Green, Speech to the American–Australian Chamber of Commerce, 29 March 1974, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 18, NAA.

49
   Correspondence, Patrick Shaw to Secretary of Department of Foreign Affairs, Conversation with Mr Robert S Ingersoll, 26 March 1974, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 19, NAA.

50
   Green, Speech to the American–Australian Chamber of Commerce, 29 March 1974, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 18, NAA.

51
   Memorandum of Conversation, Meeting of Departmental Officers with Mr RL Sneider and US Officials, 6 March 1974, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 17, NAA.

52
   Cablegram, Record of Conversation, Ambassador with Acting Secretary of State, 21 February 1974, A1838, 50/9/1, Part 17, NAA.

53
   Record of Conversation, Prime Minister with Ambassador Shaw, Kirribilli, 23 January 1974, A1838, 50/9/1, Part 17, NAA.

54
   Memorandum of Conversation, Meeting of Departmental Officers with Mr RL Sneider and US Officials, 6 March 1974, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 17, NAA.

55
   Memorandum, Border (Dept Foreign Affairs) to Prime Minister, ‘ANZUS Council Meeting', 28 February 1974, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 17, NAA.

56
   Memorandum, Border to Prime Minister, ‘ANZUS Council Meeting', 28 February 1974.