Book Review: What Price Israel
| Author | John E. Robbins |
| Published date | 01 June 1955 |
| Date | 01 June 1955 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070205501000208 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
132
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
mand
that
France's
Constitutional primacy
now
yield
to
the
equality
of
partnership.
The
chapters
entitled "In
Search
of
Security"
and
"The
Pursuit
of
Europe"
give
a
closely
woven
account
of
France's
early
post-war
role
as
a
would-be
conciliator
between
East
and
West,
of
the
haunting
"German
problem,"
the
Russian-imposed
deadlock in
the
United
Nations,
and
finally
of
France's
concentra-
tion
on
the
"idea
of
European
unity
as
the
only
remaining
hope
of
peace."
"Europe
without
Britain
is
inconceivable,"
declared
a
French
spokesman;
but
geography
and
history
forbade
Britain
to
em-
brace
the
French
federalist
and
"integrationist"
approach
to
Churchill's "European unity."
The
Scandinavians
stood
aside
with
Britain.
Mrs.
Pickles
then
describes
the
consequent
failure
to
endow
the
Council
of Europe
(Strasbourg)
with
overall
author-
ity,
the
successful
establishment
of
a
supra-national
Coal
and
Steel Community
but
for
Little
Europe
only,
the
vicissitudes
of
of
the
Plkven
Plan
as
it
was
being
metamorphosed
into
the
EDC
Treaty,
and
(re-appearing
through
all
these
French-led efforts)
the
paralyzing
fear
of a
renascent
Germany
unbalanced
within
the
projected
EDC
by
full
British
membership
or binding
Amer-
ican
guarantees.
This
sympathetic yet
meticulous
and
objective description
of
the
sea
of troubles
which
often
seems
to
threaten
to
over-
whelm
contemporary
France,
carries
the
reader
through
1951.
One
wishes
that
its
scholarly
author
would now
condense
its
essentials into
pamphlet form
for
the
general
reader,
and
in-
cidently
bring
it
forward to
the
present.
Vancouver,
B.C.
S.
MACK EASTMAN
WHAT
PRICE
ISRAEL.
By
Alfred
Lilienthal.
1953.
(Chicago:
Henry
Regnery
Co.;
Toronto:
S.
J.
Reginald
Saunders.
viii,
274pp.
$5.15)
In
Alfred Lilienthal
the
non-Zionists
of
the
Jewish
community
in
the
United
States
have
become vocal.
In
a
closely-reasoned
and
carefully-documented
book
he
presents
a
convincing
case
for
complete
re-assessment
of
Western
policy
in
the
Near
East,
and
warns
his
American
co-religionists
of
the
contradiction
and
peril
involved
in
identifying
themselves,
and
Judaism, with
the
foreign
state
of
Israel.
Lilienthal
shows how
Zionism,
after
gaining
momentum
and
embarrassing
the
British
in
Palestine
between
the
wars,
was
able
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