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Bookplate inserted; inscribed by author in blue pen: “Rt Hon R.G. Menzies with good wishes for a pleasant [indecipherable], Paul McGuire June 1948”; on p. 5: “Britain and the Commonwealth may still have the major role if their peoples understand their own problems: but the British peoples also (as the recent performances of several of their Goverments reveal) lack a clear sense of their situation” is underlined; also underlining on pp 26-27; on p. 27 in margin it is written in blue pen: “but this connotes one fleet”. Additional underlining on earmarked pp. 236; 314; 350 – 353 including on 353: “The existing machinery is inadequate. The press of problems will not be met by meetings of Prime Minister’s at odd or occasional intervels. The problems flow in an unbroken stream: they cross and intercross and shuffle in a continuum, one merging with another.”