Hugh Dunn interviewed by Michael Wilson for the Australian diplomacy 1950-1990 oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 396635
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Dunn, Hugh, 1923-2005, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
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- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 Aug. 27
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 165 min.)
- Series:
- Australian diplomacy 1950-1990 oral history project.
- Summary:
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Dunn reflects on his career as an Australian diplomat. He describes his early life; studying Chinese; joining the Dept. of External Affairs; first posting to Japan in post-WWII period; appointment as Australian representative to UNCURK, 1956-59; attitudes in South to North Korea; conditions in Korea following war; Australian foreign policy to China 1960s-1970s; Washington posting at time of Kennedy assassination; US & Australian policy in Vietnam; appointment to National Defence College, India, 1966; Saigon posting, incl. American officials, Australian-Vietnamese relations, propaganda and effect of war; role as Ambassador to Taiwan, 1969-72 & closure of Embassy; Ambassadorship to Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay & Peru; South American political conditions; Nairobi appointment, including Uganda, Ethiopia, Seychelles, UNEP & Habitat; East African political conditions; Ambassador to China, 1980-84; Chinese political conditions; Australian-Chinese relations; changes observed in Dept. of Foreign Affairs over 30 years; relations between Canberra and overseas offices; Departmental Secretaries; views on Foreign Ministers; Australian-Asian relations; contemporary Australian foreign policy; China-Japan relations; Chinese military policy; foreign views of Australia.
- Notes:
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- Recorded as part of a joint project with the Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
- Recorded in Toowong, Qld. on 27 August 1993.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-217162071
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- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 64 leaves)
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