Book Reviews : The Law of International Transactions and Relations. Cases and Materials. Milton Katz and Kingman Brewster Jr. New York: Foundation Press. London: Stevens. £5 10s. 0d
| Published date | 01 April 1961 |
| Date | 01 April 1961 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/004711786100200314 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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their
puritanism
into
the
erotic
life,
the
symbol
of
&dquo; freedom &dquo;,
even
with
the
help
of
Freud.
After
1914
it
was &dquo; never
bright
morning
again &dquo;,
the
dream
had
fled,
beyond
recall.
It
is
maintained
here
that
it
was
never
more
than
a
dream,
an
illusion.
The
Eisenhower
regime
is,
in
the
light
of
this
analysis,
condemned
as
surely
as
the
earlier
attitudes.
Whether
America’s
awakening
will
not
be
too
late
is
still
in
the
balance.
The
last
two
books
are
both
an
indictment
of
the
trend
in
American
culture
towards
a
useless,
wasteful
and
burdensome
multiplication
of
con-
sumer
goods,
each
and
all
of
them
with
an
increasingly
shorter &dquo;
built-in
&dquo;
life
span,
and
the
concomittant
campaign
to
make
the
United
States
citizen
buy
what
he
neither
wants
nor
can
afford
in
order
to
satisfy
the
demands
of
&dquo; status
&dquo; set
by
the
same
agencies.
In
the
process
he
is
wasting
an
cver
increasing
amount
of
the
limited
natural
resources
of
the
earth,
with
no
adequate
compensatory
return.
Mr.
Packard’s
is
the
more
forthright,
as
it
is
the
less
hopeful
analysis
of
what
is
wrong
with
American
culture,
indeed
with
the
&dquo; American
way
of
life &dquo;.
At
the
moment
production
for
the
sake
of
production
and
an
avoidance
of
the
slowing
down
of
the
whole
vast
industrial
machine,
is
king;
the
consumer
is
&dquo; the
humble
subject
&dquo; of
the
marketeers
who
devote
all
their
talents
to
his
seduction while
carelessly
squandering
the
wealth.
oil,
coal,
water,
timber,
metals,
not
only
of
their
own
country
but
of
the
whole
world.
Mr.
Galbraith’s
message
is
much
the
same
though
put
with
far
more
objectivity
and
balance.
His
virtue
is
to
alarm
all
sections
of
the
com-
munity-his
fellow
economists,
since
he
writes
plain
English
that
all
who
run
may
read-his
fellow
liberals,
since
he
does
not
wholeheartedly
espouse
left-wing
humanitarianism-conservatives,
since
he
is
so
unorthodox.
&dquo;The
nature
of
a
vested
interest
has
an
engaging
flexibility-in
ordinary
inter-
course
it
is
an
improper
advantage
enjoyed
by
a
political
minority
to
which
the
speaker
does
not
himself
belong.
When
the
speaker
enjoys
it,
it
ceases
to
be
a
vested
interest
and
becomes
a
hard-won
reward.
When
a
vested
interest
is
enjoyed
not
by
a
minority
but
by
the
majority
it
is
a
human
right &dquo;.
The
author
believes
that
America
is
too
rich
and
too
comfortable
to
regard
constantly
increasing
the
production
of
ever
more
superfluous
consumer
goods
as
the
main
aim
and
purpose
of
existence.
What
is
needed
are
more
schoolrooms
rather
than
more
tailfins,
a
much
heavier
investment
in
the
public
sectors
of
the
national
life.
He
is
against
inflation
since
inevitably
it
corrupts
good
government
as
government
salaries
never
keep
pace
with
an
inflating
currency.
He
plumps
for
positive,
though
moderate
government
action
to
put
an
end
to
the
wage-price
spiral
and
favours
an
extended
sales
tax,
rather
than
the
raising
of
taxation
levels,
to
provide
further
revenue.
It
is
reassuring
to
know
that
his
advice
is
now
sought
by
the
new
President
who
has
himself
already
sent
a
message
to
Congress
on
the
conservation
and
replacement
of
natural
resources.
It
remains
to
be
seen
what
action,
if
any,
will
follow.
The
Law
of
International
Transactions
and
Relations.
Cases
and
Materials.
Milton
Katz
and
Kingman
Brewster
Jr.
New
York:
Foundation
Press.
London:
Stevens.
£5
10s.
0d.
This
book
is
primarily
intended
for
students
who
follow
courses
in
International
Legal
Relations
in
American
Universities,
in
particular
at
the
Harvard
Law
School,
of
which
Dr.
Milton
Katz
is
a
distinguished
ornament.
As
such
it
is
an
invaluable
collection
of
cases
of
municipal
and
inter-
national
tribunals,
treaties
and
national
statutes,
records
of
diplomatic
or
business
actions,
and
similar
material
in
the
fields
which
it
covers.
The
teaching
of
international
law
in
the
United
States
is
tending
to
take
the
form
of
a
pragmatic
approach
to
legal
doctrine
by
means
of
concrete
examples
of
actual
practice
in
given
cases
where
international
disputes
have
become
the
subject
of
adjudication.
It
is
this
type
of
material
which
is
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