Book Review: Twenty Million World War Veterans
| Author | H. M. Jackson |
| Date | 01 March 1951 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205100600115 |
| Published date | 01 March 1951 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
64
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
the Acts
of
Union
with
Scotland
and
Ireland.
Mr.
Peaslee may
be
sympathized with, however,
when
he
has
to
choose
essential
statutes
for
countries
whose
constitutions
are
not
contained
in
any
single
charter.
Probably
no
two
Canadian
lawyers
would agree
what statutes
compose
the
constitution
of
Canada.
This
book
is
not for
general
reading;
it
is
a
book
of
reference,
a
library
book.
Yet
it
somehow
breathes
a
spirit
of
progress
and
faith,
as
though
its very existence
proved
that
a
principle
of
law
and
order,
of
organization
and
government,
was
the normal
rule to
which
all
tyranny
and
violence
is
an
exception.
With
so
much
popular
will
recognized,
so
many
rights
guaranteed,
such
splendid types
of
state
machinery
operating
over
the
face of
the
globe,
surely
we
cannot
be
far
from
world
peace?
These
happy
thoughts
do
not
belong
to
the
world
of
realpolitik,
perhaps,
but
who
shall
say
what
is
the
real
world?
These
rules
do
exist
,and
do
affect
the
daily
lives
of
the
world's
family.
View-
ing
them
all
together
emphasizes
the
need
for
the
one
supra-national
constitution
that
still
does
not
exist.
It
is
not
too
fanciful to
imagine
that
in
due
course
this
will
emerge,
converting
today's
international
law
into
world
constitutional
law.
These
nations
will
then
be
provinces.
However
distant
this
change may
be,
Mr.
Peaslee's
labour
of
learning
and
love
in
publishing these
volumes
deserves high
commendation.
He
has
made
a
contribution
toward
an
understanding
of
the
principles
on
which one
world
must
be
based.
McGill
University.
F.
R.
Scott
TWENTY
MILLION WORLD
WAR
VETERANS.
By
Robert
England.
1950.
(Toronto:
Oxford University
Press.
222
pp.
$3.00,
members
$2.40.)
With
one-third
of
the
voting
strength
coming
from the
war
veterans,
who
affect
one-quarter
of
the
population
of
the United
States and
Canada, it
is
not to
be
wondered
at
that
the
destiny
of
this
powerful
section
of
the
community
and
its
effect
upon
the
welfare
of
these
nations
should
represent a
question
of
imp6rtance
and
significance.
Politically,
this
constituency has
already
made
its
influence a
power
in
both coun-
tries.
In
their
economies,
there
have
been
and
will
be
repercussions
for
generations.
Socially,
the
value
of
the
efforts
and
the
monies
spent
upon
gratuities or
bonuses,
treatment
services, education
and
welfare
is
be-
yond
calculation.
Ethically,
the
very
fact
that
such
immense
efforts
should
be
made
in
acknowledgement
of
the
debt
of
society
to
these
men
and
women,
is
a
movement which
is bound to
affect
all such
future
services
to
the
public
as
a whole.
The
author
has
succeeded in
showing
the
significance
to
the
entire
fabric
of life of
the
hosts
of
veterans
in
North
America,
because
of
their
numbers,
of
their
organizations
and
of
the
treatment
accorded
them
by
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