Book Review: Survey of International Affairs 1951, Documents on International Affairs 1951
| Published date | 01 December 1956 |
| Author | Richard A. Preston |
| Date | 01 December 1956 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205601100417 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
references
to
the
Britons
who
did
so
much
for
Zionism
are
col-
oured
by
her
recollection
that
the
British are
"never
at
a
loss
for
an
effective
moral
attitude"...
"even
if the
pretext
were
only
the
murder
of
a
missionary."
This
reviewer,
who
watched
a
homeless
people
making
another
people
homeless,
was
taken
aback
at
the
hardness
of
the
few
mentions of
the
Arabs,
who
are
regarded
much
as
settlers
would
regard
the
vermin
on
their
new
homesteads,
and
whose
resistance
to
the
loss
of
their
homes
is
called
"intransigence."
Mrs.
Tuchman
paints
a
Zionism
as
un-
assailable as
truth
itself
and
as
generous
as
concrete.
I suppose
she
meant to?
Despite
her
confidence,
her
last
pages
show
some
uneasiness
lest
the
answer
to
the
Palestine question
be,
after
all,
"one
of
those
unsatisfactory
truths
with
which
history
so
often
defeats
its
interpreters."
The
book
will
comfort
those
Zionists
who
feel
any dubiety.
It
is
unfashionably
free
from
misprints.
Kingston,
Ontario
C.
D.
QUILLIAM
SURVEY
OF
INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS
1951.
By
Peter
Calvocoressi.
1954.
(London:
R.I.I.A.,
Oxford;
Toronto:
Oxford.
xi,
505pp.
and
maps.
$6.75)
DOCUMENTS
ON
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
1951.
Edited
by
Denise Folliot.
1954.
(London:
R.I.I.A.,
Oxford; Toronto:
Oxford.
xxv,
698pp.
$9.00)
The
third
postwar
Survey
volume,
that
for
1951,
returned
the
Chatham
House
series
on
international
affairs
to
its
prewar
principle
of
annual
volumes,
each
covering
the
events
of
a
single
year.
It
also
re-established
the
principle
of
universality,
since
Middle
Eastern
affairs,
excluded
in
the
wartime
and postwar
volumes, were
once
more
included.
A
parallel
volume
of
Docu-
ments
for
1951
was
published
simultaneously.
As
these
volumes
for
1951
were
produced
in
manuscript
in
about
twelve
months
and
then
took a
little
more
than
another
year
to
go
through
the press,
it
would
seem
that
henceforward
we
can
expect
the
Chatham
House
volumes
about
two
years
after
the
events
which
they
describe
and document.
The
year
1951
was
the
year
of
the
armistice
talks
in Korea,
of
the
negotiation
of
a
Japanese
Peace
Treaty,
of
the
Iranian
oil
crisis
and
the
ensuing
near-war
in
Egypt,
of
the
inclusion
of
Greece
and
Turkey
in
NATO,
of
the
adoption
of
the
Schuman
Plan
for
a
European
Coal
and
Steel Community,
and
of
the
begin-
ning
of
discussions
about
Pleven's
abortive
European
Defence
Community.
Communist
initiative
in
Europe
having
been
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