Article: Americanization and Australia.(Review)

Americanization and Australia. By Philip Bell and Roger Bell eds. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1998), pp. 282. Paper $24.95.

In 1940, Great Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. And so too was Australia. Australia's new boy in Washington, Richard Gardiner Casey -- a former federal Treasurer and future governor-general -- decided to find out what, if anything, Americans thought about Australia. Shortly after presenting his credentials to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Casey commissioned from a well-known New York public relations firm a "confidential survey of the problem of increasing American knowledge of, and interest in, Australia". The ...

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