Book Review: War-Time Mission in Spain 1942–1945
| Author | H. F. Grant |
| Published date | 01 October 1946 |
| Date | 01 October 1946 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070204600100420 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
International
Journal
governments
act
to
prevent
depressions
at
home
and
to
remove
the
barriers
in
the
way
of
an
expanding
world
economy.
Professor
Frederick
Schuman,
who
writes
on
regionalism,
also
links
up domestic
order
with
international
peace,
but
is
uneasy because
of
the
wide
gap
between
words
and action
in
international
relations;
he ends
by
quoting
President
Roosevelt's
last
message:
"The
only
limit
to
our
realizations
of
tomorrow will
be
our
doubts
of
today."
Incidentally
Professor Schuman
argues
that
the
best
way
to
deal
with
Germany
and
Japan
would
be
to
make
them
both
trusteeships
of
the
United
Nations.
Professor
Malbone
Graham,
on
the
other
hand,
is
optimistic
in
Writing
on
Great
Powers
and
Small;
he
follows
an
historical
thread
to
show
that
we
are
doing
quite
well in
"reducing the area
of
irresponsi-
bility"
and
bringing
power
into
the
service
of
world
society;
the
Covenant
of
the
League
was
an
attempt
to
"institutionalize"
power,
and
the Charter
has set
out
to
"constitutionalize"
it.
Inpassing
he
suggests
that
air
power
has
given
a
new
"functional"
importance
to
the
"middle
states"-Canada,
Brazil,
Australia,
etc.-because
of
their strategic
posi-
tion;
they
cannot
enforce
security,
but it
cannot
be
enforced
without
them.
Professor
Arthur
Burns
deals
with
the
treatment
of
enemy
powers;
and
Professor
Percy
Corbett with
the
broader
moral
aspects
of
"power
and justice."
He
remarks
sensibly
that
a
unified
working
conception
of
justice
can
exist
only
where
there
is
an
organized
community, and
that
for
the
time
being
the
code
of
justice
of
the
United
Nations
will
be
what
the
three
chief
powers
make
of
it.
London,
June
1946.
David
Mitrany
WAR-TIME MISSION IN
SPAIN
1942-1945.
By
J.
H.
Carlton
Hayes.
(New
York,
Toronto:
Macmillan.
313
pp.
$4.50)
Professor
Carlton
Hayes'
account
of
his
mission
to
Spain
as American
Ambassador
from
1942
to
1945
is
valuable for
the
light it
throws
on
Allied
policy
towards
Spain
during
the
war.
By
bargaining
with
the
Spanish
Government
on
a
quid
pro
quo
basis,
in
which
his
chief
asset
was
Spain's
need
for petrol
and
other
commodities
it
could
obtain
only
from
the
Allies,
Professor
Hayes
was
able to
convince
the
Caudillo
that
he
had
nothing
to
fear
from
the
Allies,
and
to
strengthen
the regime
econom-
ically
and
militarily
against
a
possible
invasion
of
the
Peninsula
by
the
Germans.
It
emerges
from
this
account
of
the
"wolfram
crisis"
of
1944,
when America
imposed
a
petrol
embargo,
that
General Franco
effectively
exploited
differences
between
the
British
and Americans.
Professor
Hayes
does
not
conceal
his
distrust
of
his
British
colleague
on
this
and
other
occasions. He
accuses
Lord
Templewood,
whom
he calls
a
"kind
of
unreconstructed
Tory,"
of
playing
a
"lone
hand,"
of
withholding
informa-
tion from
the
Americans,
and
of
working
for
a
restoration
of
the
Spanish
monarchy
to
further
British interests.
The
not
uncommon
fear
among
Americans
of
being "outsmarted"
by
the
Britisher,
leads
Professor
Hayes,
who
invariably
puts
the
best
construction
on
the
activities
of
the
Spanish
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