Book Review: Coral and Brass
| Published date | 01 March 1950 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205000500114 |
| Author | C. P. Stacey |
| Date | 01 March 1950 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
Book
Reviews
seded
by
a
volume
based
on
more
accurate
collection
and compilation
of
census
and
vital
statistics,
it
will
remain
an indispensable
reference
work
for
all
students
of
African
population
problems.
University
of
Toronto,
August
1949.
G.
Gordon Brown
THE
YEAR BOOK
OF
WORLD
AFFAIRS,
1949.
Ed.
by George
W.
Keeton
and
Georg
Schwarzenberger.
1949.
(London:
Stevens
and
Sons;
published
under
the
auspices
of
the
London
Institute
of
World
Affairs.
viii,
342pp.
20s.)
The
third
volume
of
the
Year Book
of
World
Affairs
maintains
the
high
standard
set
by its predecessors and
adheres
to
the
pattern
they
have established.
That
is
to
say
it
presents
a
dozen
articles
of
more
than
average
length
on
national or
regional
policies,
the
working
of
international
institutions,
and
the
study
of
International
Relations.
On
the
last
named subject
the
article
by
Georg
Schwarzenberger
deserves
careful
readings
for its
penetrating
analysis.
Of
the
regional
studies
those
by David
Thomson
on
"The
Middle Way
in
France" and
by
Hugh
Seton-Watson
on
Eastern
Europe
are
outstanding
although
there are
enlightening
comments in
the
articles
on
India
and China.
Dr.
Margaret
Ball
contributes
an
authoritative
essay
on
the
workings
of
the
Inter-
American system
and
Miss
Susan
Strange the
liveliest
of
writing
in
the
book
in
her
analysis
of
"Palestine
and
the United
Nations." Mr.
Schapiro
continues
his
studies
of
Soviet
attitudes
in
a
painstaking
description
of
"Soviet
Participation
in
International
Institutions."
As
in
the
past
the
volume
contains
sixty
pages
of
book
reviews described
as
"Reports
on
World
Affairs"
in
their
sociological,
legal,
educational,
geographical, and
other
aspects. The
categories
are
somewhat
arbitrary
so
that
it
is
a
little
surprising
to
find
The
United
States
in
World
Affairs,
1945-47
in
a
group
of
books
discussed
in
the
report
on
"Sociological
Aspects"
and
K.
C.
Wheare's
The
Statute
of
Westminster
and
Dominion
Status
placed
in
the
report
on
"Institutional
Aspects." The
attempt
to
cover
too
many
books
in
too
little
space
has
also
reduced
the
effectiveness
of
several
of
the
reviews.
University
of
British
Columbia,
July
1949.
F.
H.
Soward
CORAL
AND
BRASS.
By
Holland
M.
Smith
and
Percy Finch.
1949.
(New
York: Charles
Scribner's
Sons.
Toronto:
S.
J.
Reginald
Saunders.
xii,
290pp.
$3.75,
members
$3.00.)
This
volume
is
by
the
former
commander
of
the
United
States
Fleet
Marine Force,
Pacific,
assisted
by an
ex-war
correspondent.
It
is
certainly
a
material
contribution
to
the history
of
the
Pacific
operations,
including
Saipan
and
Iwo
Jima;
but
it
is
not
among
the
most
dis-
tinguished
of
the
growing
body
of
personal
memoirs
of
the
war.
The
tone
is
controversial
and
rather
sentimental;
the
authors
are
concerned
to
prove
that
the
U.S.
Marines
of
1941-5
were
"the
finest
fighting
men
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