Book Reviews : The Proposal for a European Company. Dennis Thompson. London: Chatham House and PEP, December 1969. (European Series No. 13). 37½p. 73 pages. Regional Policy in Britain and the Six: Community Regional Policy. Harold Lind and Christopher Flockton. London: Chatham House and PEP, November 1970. (European Series No. 15). 65p. 77p pages. Agricultural Policy and the Common Market. John Marsh and Christopher Ritson. London: Chatham House and PEP, March 1971. (European Series No. 16). £1.25. 199 pages. The EEC: National Parliaments in Community Decision-making. Michael Niblock. London: Chatham House and PEP, April 1971. (European Series No. 17). £1.00. 112 pages

Date01 December 1971
DOI10.1177/004711787100301211
Published date01 December 1971
Subject MatterArticles
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and
that
of
the
U.N.
as
well
as
the
ultimate
constraint
of
national
interest,
we
have
no
cause
to
be
ashamed
of
our
record.
He
is
particularly
inter-
esting
on
Party
attitudes
towards
the
Organization.
In
a
final
paper,
David
Mitrany
puts
the
United
Nations
into
&dquo;Historical
Perspective&dquo;,
with
great
breadth
of
vision.
The
United
Nations,
itself
a
new
development,
has
been
overtaken
by
the
speed
of
developments
in
the
post-war
world
-
the
increase
in
the
number
of
nations,
national
centraliza-
tion,
the
scientific-technological
revolution
-
all
of
which
in
different
ways
weaken
or
bypass
it.
Professor
Mitrany
suggests
these
trends
can
be
altered
either
by
&dquo;formal
changes
in
the
structure
and
relationship
of
authority
within
the
U.N.
itself&dquo;
or
&dquo;through
changes
developing
gradually
through
common
activities
and
working
relations
among
the
members&dquo;.
After
point-
ing
out
the
many
difficulties
of
the
first
path
he
holds
out
some
hope
for
the
second:
processes
of
regional
and
functional
devolution
may
help
with
local
and
global
problems
respectively,
and
the
U.N.
can
contribute
to
international
administrative
law.
He
concludes
that
in
Wilfred
Jenks’
phrase
&dquo;the
historical
task of
our
time
is
not
to
keep
the
nations
peacefully
apart,
but
to
bring
them
actively
together&dquo;.
The
first
the
U.N.
cannot
do;
&dquo;the
other
it
can
do and
is
doing
with
greater
promise&dquo;.
.
We
are
left
with
the
assumption
that,
in
spite
of
all
its
constraints,
the
U.N.
does
offer
a
prospect
for
peace.
This
conclusion
is
the
more
encourag-
ing
because
it
emerges
from
such
a
scholarly
and
unsentimental
study.
The
Proposal
for
a
European
Company.
Dennis
Thompson.
London:
Chatham
House
and
PEP,
December
1969.
(European
Series
No.
13).
37½p.
73
pages.
Regional
Policy
in
Britain
and
the
Six:
Community
Regional
Policy.
Harold
Lind
and
Christopher
Flockton.
London:
Chatham
House
and
PEP,
November
1970.
(European
Series
No.
15).
65p.
77p
pages.
Agricultural
Policy
and
the
Common
Market.
John
Marsh
and
Christopher
Ritson.
London:
Chatham
House
and
PEP,
March
1971.
(European
Series
No.
16).
£1.25.
199
pages.
The
EEC:
National
Parliaments
in
Community
Decision-making.
Michael
Niblock.
London:
Chatham
House
and
PEP,
April
1971.
(European
Series
No.
17).
£1.00.
112
pages.
These
four
additions
to
the
Chatham
House-Political
and
Economic
Planning
European
Series
can
only
enhance
the
reputation
of
the
Series
as
an
invaluable
contribution
to
the
&dquo;Great
Debate&dquo;
on
Britain
and
the
Euro-
pean
Communities.
Previous
booklets
in
the
series
on
such
topics
as
the
EEC’s
common
agricultural
policy,
the
future
of
sterling,
and
the
institu-
tions
of
the
Communities
have
already
provided
a
basis
for
more
informed
discussion.
Dennis
Thompson’s
study
of
the
prospects
for
European
Company
Law
is
an
excellent
analysis
of
a
highly
technical
legal
topic
in
terms
which
non-specialists
will
find
both
intelligible
and
informative.
Dr.
Thompson,
a
barrister-at-law
of
the
Inner
Temple,
currently
a
member
of
the
EFTA
secretariat,
is
primarily
concerned
with
analysing
the
draft
statute
for
a
European
Company
prepared
by
Professor
Pieter
Sanders
and
his
associ-
ates
for
the
Commission
of
the
European
Community
in
1966.
Such
a
statute
would
assist
in
the
creation
of
a
new
type
of
company
in
the
Common
Market,
a
Societas
Europaea,
which
would
take
exactly
the
same
form
in
all
the
member
states,
thereby
overcoming
the
many
disparities
of
legal
framework
in
which
national
companies
operate.
Dr.
Thompson’s
cogent
analysis
is
divided
into
six
sections:
a
brief
introduction:
an
assess-
ment
of
the
need
for
a
European
company:
an
examination
of
the
Rome
Treaty
regime
affecting
companies;
a
detailed
survey
of
the
proposed
European
Statute,
and
a
concluding
section.
Harold
Lind and
Christopher
Flockton
have
combined
their
separate
studies
of
regional
policy
in
Britain
and
the
Six.
Harold
Lind
is
on
the
staff
of
the
Advertising
Association
and
formerly
worked
at
the
National
Institute
of
Economic
and
Social
Research
on
British
regional
economic
development,
while
Christopher
Flockton
is
a
Research
Assistant
at
the
Centre
for
Contemporary
European
Studies,
University
of
Sussex,
engaged
on
a
study
of
regional
policy
in Britain
and
the
Six.
Their
book
commences
with
some
definitions
and
criteria
for
regional
policy,
followed
by
a
survey

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