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This chapter considers the contribution of Fred Alexander (1899–1996) to the Australian school. By virtue of his long residence, from 1924, in Perth, Alexander was to a degree challenged by isolation from the eastern capitals. Yet, he turned this position to advantage, successfully mobilizing international support for fieldwork in Britain, Europe, and the United States before the Pacific War. As one of the most prominent, and certainly the most energetic, academic with an interest in international affairs at the University of Western Australia, his local impact was prodigious, his ideas being propagated well beyond the campus in extension lectures in rural areas, numerous newspaper articles, and then by way of radio broadcasts. In turn, this prominence gave him a national role as the principal West Australian representative of the LNU from the time it became a federal body in 1930.
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Cotton, J. (2013). Fred Alexander: The Duty of Public Education. In: The Australian School of International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137308061_8
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