1. For the determination of the British to influence the post-war status of Japan, R. Buckley, Occupation diplomacy (Cambridge, 1982).
2. Minutes of discussion, 5 Jan. 1949. Sir R. Clarke, Anglo-American economic collaboration in war and peace 1942–1949, ed. A. Cairncross (Oxford, 1982) p. 209.
3. The definition of a great power advanced in M. Wight, Power politics (London, 1946).
4. For this managerial characteristic of a great power, Hedley Bull, The anarchical society (London, 1977) p. 202.
5. Bevin to Attlee, 9 Jan. 1947. A. Bullock, Ernest Bevin Foreign Secretary 1945–51 (London, 1983) p. 353. See also the judgement of Douglas, the American ambassador, 31 Aug. 1948, ibid., p. 602–4.