Abstract
june 1950 to July 1953 New Zealand took part in the United Nations 'police action' in Korea, the fourth time a New Zealand expeditionary force had been sent overseas. For many New Zealanders this conflict, sandwiched between the Second World War and the agonizing struggle in Vietnam, is a 'forgotten war', remarkable only for the huge boost in wool prices it engendered. The attitude reflects the limited impact of the war on New Zealand. There was no conscription or direction of industrial labour, as in the Second World War; no long casualty lists to jolt the composure of those at home ; and no sense of direct threat to New Zealand akin to that in 1940-2. The Korean War is nevertheless a watershed in the development of New Zealand's post-war foreign policy. During its course, New Zealand entered an alliance with the United States which came in time to be the
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