Roy Fernandez interviewed by Michael Wilson for the Australian diplomacy 1950-1990 oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 397871
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Fernandez, Roy, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 Oct. 19
- 4 sound cassettes (ca. 204 min.)
- Series:
- Australian diplomacy 1950-1990 oral history project.
- Summary:
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Roy Fernandez, former Australian diplomat and Head of Mission with the Dept. of Foreign Affairs, reflects on his career as an Australian diplomat. He describes his early life in China; internment as a teenager in civilian prisioner of war camps in Manila and Shanghai; joining the Dept. in 1951; training; changes in Dept. dress style; language study; first posting to Indonesia, 1953; West New Guinea issue; Indonesian political conditions; return to Southeast Asian section of Dept.; responsibility for Malaysia, Singapore, Christmas Island; Washington appointment at time of Suez crisis; nuclear agreement with US; visits by Menzies; offshore islands crisis, 1958; Vietnam War; domino theory; Rome posting; Saigon appointment 1965-67; American intervention in Vietnam; appointment to Imperial Defence College, London; Ambassador to Burma, 1968-70; posting to Yugoslavia & Romania, 1970-71; Tito; Ceausescu; Baltic political, social conditions; Minister in Washington, 1971-74; Watergate; Clyde Cameron statement against Nixon; return to Canberra as Head of Defence & Nuclear Divisions, 1975-79; policy development under Whitlam; National Intelligence Committee; Office of National Assessments; leaks; nuclear safeguards policy; 1979 UK posting during Russian invasion of Afghanistan; Brussels appointment, 1980-82; relations with NATO; confrontation with EEC; conflict between trade policy & diplomacy; influence of overseas missions; Ambassador to Philippines, 1982-86; Marcos; Aquino; political leanings of Dept. officers.
- Notes:
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- Recorded as part of a joint project with the Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
- Recorded in Sydney, N.S.W. on 19 October 1993.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Corrected transcript (typescript, 77 leaves) available.
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