Book Review: Special Study on Economic Conditions and Development in Non-Self-Governing Territories
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205501000209 |
| Date | 01 June 1955 |
| Published date | 01 June 1955 |
| Author | L. C. Coleman |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK REVIEWS
133
to
capitalize
on
the
misery
of
the
European Jews
brought
on by
the
second
world
war.
He
quotes
approvingly
Dr.
Louis
Finkel-
stein
in
saying
that
"if
United
States
Jews
had
put
as
much
effort
into
getting
D.P.'s
admitted
to
this
country
as
they
put
into
Zionism,
a
home
could
have
been
found
in
the
New
World
for
all
the
displaced
Jews
of
Europe."
And
more
positively
in
the
words of
the
Yiddish
Bulletin
of
the
Free
Jewish
Club:
They
(the
Zionists)
"sacrified
the
interests
of
living
people-their
brothers
and
sisters
who
went
through
a
world
of
pain-to
the
politics
of
their
own
movement."
Jews
from
all
parts
of Europe
were
brought
down
to
Mediterranean
ports
at
the
door of
Palestine,
many of
them
against
their
will,
under
conditions
of
privation
and
squalor suitable
for
use in publicity
that
was
carefully
de-
signed
to
arouse
sympathy
and
inflame
passions
in
America.
"Organized
American
Jewry
exerted
utmost pressures
on
public
opinion
and politicians.
This,
everyone
was
reminded, was
the
same
kind
of
war
the
American
Revolutionists
had
waged
against
the
very
same
imperialist
power."
A
chapter
on
"the
unholy
partition
of
the
Holy
Land"
by
the
UN
is
followed
by
one
recounting
the
birth
of
Israel,
and
the
"wooing
of
the
Jewish
vote"
whereby
American
foreign
policy
in
one
of
the
most
strategically
important
areas
of
the
world
was
decided
by
the
President
on
the
basis
of
its
vote-getting
value,
and
against
the
judgment
of
the
State
Department.
In a
concluding
"Agenda
for
Jews"
Lilienthal
includes:
"Unless
the
State
of
Israel
severs
its
umbilical
ties
with
private
political
and
propaganda organizations
outside
its
borders,
it
deserves
neither
the
recognition
of
the
civilized
world
nor
the
co-operation
of
its
Arab neighbors.
Specifically,
Israel
must,
for
a
start
at
least
execute
the
various
decrees of
the
United
Nations
which
created
that
State.
These
orders
stipulated
an
economic
union
of
Palestine,
an
international
rule
over
the
city
of
Jerusalem,
which
is
the
holy
home
of
three
world
religions,
and a
just
settle-
ment
of
the
Arab
refugee
problem.
They
also
provided
certain
boundaries
for
the
new
nation"
which
it
has
not
observed.
Ottawa
JOHN
E.
ROBBINS
SPECIAL
STUDY ON
ECONOMIC
CONDITIONS
AND
DEVELOPMENT
IN
NON-SELF-GOVERNING
TERRITORIES.
The
United
Nations.
1953.
(Toronto:
Ryerson
Press.
iii,
415pp.
$3.00)
The
United
Nations
Committee
on
Information from
Non-
Self-Governing
Territories
appointed,
in
1951,
a
sub-committee
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