In the previous volume it was argued that a wide area of disagreement divided the Australian from the Indian approach to problems of international affairs: Australia was aligned irrevocably with the western power bloc and looked for her military security to the United States with whose methods of attaining her international ends India fundamentally disagreed. The area of difference had been emphasized by Mr. Menzies’ policy during the Suez crisis, a policy which aligned Australia in Asian eyes with an outworn nineteenth century gunboat British imperialism.