Book Review: International Social Science Bulletin
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205400900120 |
| Published date | 01 March 1954 |
| Date | 01 March 1954 |
| Author | J. E. Hodgetts |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
68
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Welfare,
the
United
Nations
and
World
Peace,
and
American
Foreign
Policy
and
the
United
Nations.
In
the
first
section
Dr.
Frank
G.
Boudreau,
former
Director
of
the
League's
Health
Organization,
praises
the
work
of
the
United
Nations
on
world
health but
seems
to discount
the fears
of
those
who
see
a danger
of over-population
in
an
attack
on
the
mortality
rate
without
corresponding
attention
to
the
birth
rate,
while
Dr.
F.
0.
Nolde,
Lutheran
Theological
Seminary,
seems
overoptimistic about
the
success
of
efforts
in
the
field
of human
rights.
In
one
of
the
best
papers
David
Mitrany
praises
the
idea
of
technical
assistance
but
suggests
some
of
the
practical
difficul-
ties
involved
while
Dr.
A.
Basch, Chief Economist
of
the
Inter-
national
Bank,
in
another
good
paper
tells of
the
work
of
the
Bank
and
some
of
the
problems
of
capital
investment
in
back-
ward
areas.
Turning
to
World
Peace,
Dr.
Otto Klineberg
of
Columbia
defends in a
reasonable
(and
humorous)
manner
the
work
of
UNESCO
while
Mr.
P.
J.
Schmidt
of
the
Secretariat
gives
a
balanced
review
of
the
disarmament
question.
Mr.
James
Hyde
of
the
U.S.
Mission
scarcely
justifies
the
Chairman's
glowing
introduction
in
a
paper
on
peaceful
settlement
the
substance
of
which
is
that
such
settlement
should
be
left
to
the
parties
them-
selves.
Leland
Goodrich
then
uses
the
Korean
affair
as
a
case
study
on
collective
security
in
the
course
of
which
he
raises
some
interesting
questions
about
military
and
political
responsibility.
The
final
two
papers
by
Ernest
Gross
and
'Wild Bill'
Donovan
are
primarily
attacks
upon
the
Soviet
Union.
Few
if
any
of
the
speakers
showed
the
unreserved
faith
of
Mr.
Feller
in
the
United
Nations,
but
on
the
whole
one
is
left
with
the
impression
that
the
United
Nations
has
been
a
success.
Edmonton,
August,
1952
C.
R.
DAVY
INTERNATIONAL
SOCIAL
SCIENCE
BULLETIN.
Vol. V,
No.
1,
"Second
International
Congress
of
Political
Science,
The
Hague,
1952."
1953.
(Paris:
Unesco.
230pp.
$1.00)
UNESCO
has
been
a
fertile
spawning
bed
for
international
learned
societies
amongst
the
social
sciences.
In
addition
to
Political
Science,
there
are
now
international
associations
repre-
senting
Economics,
Comparative
Law,
Sociology,
Social
Psy-
chology
and
Anthropology.
The
task
of
co-ordinating
the
ac-
tivities
of
these
associations
is
rapidly
becoming
as
complicated
as
running
the
United
Nations
itself.
Professors
may
soon
find
themselves
much
too
preoccupied
with
the
intricate
planning
re-
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