Book Review: Peace, Security and the United Nations
| Author | David Mitrany |
| Date | 01 October 1946 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070204600100419 |
| Published date | 01 October 1946 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
Book
Reviews
descriptions
and
analyses
of
such
forms
of
human
aggression.
According
to
Dr.
Leighton,
"the
Principles
are
thought
to
have
validity
which
is
independent
of
any
political
theory
or
design
for
living."
He
has
organized
Part
II
as follows:
"Fundamental
Postulate"-
Two
Principles; "Individuals
under
Stress"-Thirteen
Principles;
"Sys-
tems
of
Belief
under
Stress"-Fourteen
principles;
"Social
Organization
under
Stress"-Seventeen
principles.
In
order
to
make
a
broader
appli-
cation
than
that
of
displaced
Japanese, the
author
refers
to
other works,
though
not
critically
or
exhaustively.
Contrary
to
the
impression given
by
the
sub-title,
it
is
obvious
that
these
principles
did.not
emerge
from
this
study
alone,
but
are
the
results
of
Dr.
Leighton's
training, his
experience
with
non-Caucasian and non-English-speaking
groups,
as
well
as
with
the
works
of
other
men.
Nor
will
the
full
significance
of
the
principles
emerge
until
more
critical
examination
has
been
undertaken
by
workers
in the
field of
psychiatry
and
social
organization,
until
the
principles
have
been
used
to
examine
other data
from
such
studies
as
the
North American Indians;
colonial
peoples,
immigrant
groups,
and
our-
selves
when
economically
depressed.
The
work
which
Drs.
Leighton and
Spicer
started
is
incomplete in
a
sense,
for
field
work
was stopped
in September,
1943.
It
would
be
desirable for
men
of
their
experience
and
ability
to
continue
the
investi-
gation,
especially
into
the
resettlement
phase.
The
major
portion
of
the
resettlement
programme
was completed
shortly
before
V-J
Day,
and
by
February,
1946,
some
58,000
of
the
evacuees were
back
on
the
Pacific
Coast,
some
fitting
easily
into
their
former
homes
and
occupations,
some
searching
for
a
new
post-war
mode
of
life,
and
the remainder
somewhat
scattered
in
the
Midwest
and
East.
They
too
should
come
within
the
purview
of
a
continued investigation, for
they
all
in
some
degree
repre-
sent
success
and failure
in
efforts
at
THE
GOVERNING
OF
MEN.
McGill
University,
June
1946.
Forrest
E.
LaViolette
PEACE,
SECURITY
AND
THE UNITED
NATIONS.
Edited
by
Hans
J.
Morgenthau.
1946.
(Chicago:
University
of
Chicago
Press.
Harris Foundation
Lectures.
133
pp.
$1.50
U.S.)
America
is
well endowed
with
foundations
which,
as
the
Preface
to
this
volume
says,
are
devoted
"to
the
advancement
of
the
science
of
international
relations,
as
wellas
to
the
political education
of
the
public
at
large."
The
latest
volume
of
the
Harris Foundation
does
this
admirably
in
five
essays
by
well-known
experts,
who show
that
in
the
United
Nations
Charter
we
have
taken
some
real
steps
towards
international
order,
but
also
that
the
national
policy
of
the
leading
states still
is
the
decisive
instrument
which will
make
or
mar
the
peace.
Dr.
Eugene
Staley,
who
deals
with
the
economic
side,
contrasts
the
opposition
to
any
economic
action by
the
League in
1919,
with
the
pressing
interest
shown
at
San
Francisco
in
social
and
economic
action
and
the
nascent
executive
power
in
the
hands
of
international
economic
agencies;
but
all
this will
remain
a
mere
promise
unless
the
national
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