Review: International: Cold Dawn
| Published date | 01 June 1975 |
| Date | 01 June 1975 |
| Author | Franklyn Griffiths |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207503000213 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
342
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Union,
there
is
also
one
paper
on Guyana,
one
on
'Some
hypotheses
on
small
and
under-developed
countries,'
one
on
'Albania
and
the
Baltic
Republics: mini-nations
in
a
modern
world,'
one
on
'Dis-
similarities
between
the north-western
Soviet
Republics,'
one
on
'The
background
on
contemporary
politics
in
the Baltic
Republics
and
the
Ukraine:
comparisons
and
contrasts,'
and
one discussing
'Publishing
and
samizdat.'
In
terms
of
discipline
and
subject
area,
the collection
deals
with
economics
(three
papers),
ecology
(four
papers),
the
Baltic
states
in
the
Soviet
context (three
papers),
the
socio-political
aspects
of
the
Soviet
Baltic
(five
papers),
and
Soviet
legal
aspects
relating
primarily
to
the
Baltic
states
(three
papers).
Though
the
papers
in
the
collection
are
of
an
uneven
quality
and
though
the
collection
lacks
coherence,
the
volume
is
nevertheless
a
useful
introduction
to
one
area
of
the
world
largely
forgotten
in
the
postwar
period.
Toivo
Miljan/Wilfrid
Laurier
University
COLD DAWN
The
Story
of
SALT
John
Newhouse
New
York:
Toronto: Holt,
Rinehart
8:
Winston,
1973,
X,
3o02pp,
$9.25
Once
in England
I
worked for
a
publisher
who when
he
had
asked
for an
explanation
of
a
situation
would
sometimes
scream
at
his
em-
ployees,
'Don't
give
me
the
facts!'
Very
rude,
but
he had
a
point.
John
Newhouse
provides
us
with
a
good
deal
of
information
on
the
American
experience
in
preparing
and negotiating
the
first
phase
of
the
Strategic
Arms
Limitation Talks
with the
Soviet
Union.
The
story
covers
the period
from the
mid-196os
to
the
Moscow
agreements
of
May
1972,
and
is
said
broadly
to
represent
Henry
Kissinger's
view
of
the
events.
Certainly
Newhouse
had
very
high
clearance
to
obtain
much
of
the detail
that
is
presented.
The
development
of
American
negotiating
alternatives
is
described,
as
are
Soviet
bargaining
positions
and
some of
the
to-and-fro
of
the
negotiations
themselves.
We
are
told
of
the
unusual
process
whereby
the
United
States
first
became
com-
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