Book Review: The Army of Israel, Jerusalem
| Author | A. A. Shea |
| Published date | 01 September 1951 |
| Date | 01 September 1951 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070205100600325 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BooK
REVIEWS
259
There
was
no
mighty
industrial
interest
arrayed
against
slavery
as
in
the
United States.
That
Nabuco's
emotional plea was enough
to
bring
slavery
crashing to
the
ground,
sheds
light
on
some
difference
in
the
political
compulsions
of
the
two
Americas.
The
abolition
of
slavery
in
various
Brazilian
states
and regions
had
already proved
that
coffee
lost
none
of
its
fragrance
when
grown
by
free
immigrant
labour.
Thus
instead
of
civil
war,
there
was
the chivalrous
gesture
of
the
head
of
the
pro-slavery
party
in
the
Senate,
when
the
Regentess
came
to
sign
the
Emancipation
Bill:
"I
refuse to
keep
a
lady
waiting."
The
Emperor Pedro
II
had not
kept
his
emancipationist
sympathies
under
a
bushel.
And
when
the
struggle
was over,
many
landowners
sought
their
revenge
by
rallying to
the
Republic.
When
the
Empire
fell,
Nabuco
withdrew
from public
life
out
of
loyalty
towards
the
Emperor.
It
was only
when
the Guiana
boundary
dispute
flared
up
with
Britain
ten
years
later,
that
he
came
out
of
retirement
to
present
his
country's
case.
His
constitutional
monarchism had
been
partly
inspired
by
his ad-
miration for
Britain.
But
his
old
age was
lighted
by
a
new
vision.
These
days
Panamericanism
is
current
enough
as
an article
of
faith:
but
in
1907
when
American
diplomacy was
disporting
itself
in
the
Caribbean
like
a
kitten
in
bowl of
goldfish,
it
was
not
an
easy
doctrine
for
a
Latin
American statesman
to
espouse.
That
Nabuco
did
so,
was
a
tribute
to
his
ability
to take
the
long
view. As
Ambassador
to the
United
States
his
unique
talents
and
charm
made
it
possible
for
him,
a
representative
of
a
little-known
land,
to
share
top
honors
with
Lord
Bryce
as
the
most
popular
members
of
the
diplomatic
corps.
The present
biograph
is
written
by
Nabuco's
daughter,
and
is
a
conscientiously
compiled
work
that
makes
absorbing
reading.
It is
strangely
barren
of
personal
recollections,
and
would, too,
have
been
improved
if
the
story
of
the
emancipation had
been
placed
in
its
social
context.
But
whatever
its
shortcomings,
it presents to
the English-
speaking
reader
one
of
the
most
captivating personalities
that
have
come
out
of
Latin
America.
Toronto.
William
Krehm
THE
ARMY
OF
ISRAEL.
By
Moshe
Pearlman.
1950.
(New
York:
Philo-
sophical
Library.
xiv,
256
pp.
$5.00
U.S.)
JERUSALEM. By
Trude
Weiss-Rosmarin.
1950.
(New
York:
Philo-
sophical
Library.
xii,
51
pp.
$2.75
U.S.)
"It
was
fighting
spirit
allied
to
ingenuity, and
both
harnessed
to
a
refusal
to
admit
defeat,
that
gave
Israel
victory."
A
new
nation,
with
roots
deep
in
history,
has
begun
to
record
the
story
of
its
creation.
The
sentence
quoted
from
Col.
Pearlman's
book
tells
the
essence
of
the
story.
The struggle
for
independence
was
short,
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