Review: The Storm Has Many Eyes
| Author | Paul Martin |
| Published date | 01 March 1975 |
| Date | 01 March 1975 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070207503000119 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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Commission,
in
working
with
difficult
'friends'
-
the
Dutch
on
one
side
.
of
the
fence
and
the
Australians
on
the
other.
The
final
piece
-
on
Manchukuo
-
is
the only
flashback
to
prewar
years,
and
details
some
of
the
limitations
on
American
interventionist
diplomacy
resulting
from
its
boycott
of
the
League.
The
absence
of
a
diplomatic
mission
in
Geneva
during
the
192os
and
the
State
Department's
failure to
estab-
lish
a
League
of
Nations
desk
until
the
193os
are common
enough
knowledge,
but
it
is
helpful
to
have
another
insider's
perspective.
These brief
references
will
not
seem
the
most
relevant
or
revealing
to
all
readers,
but
it
is
probably
safe
to
suggest
that
in
the
assortment
of
detail
(albeit
un-footnoted)
and
skilful
combination
of
personal
memoir
with straight
'academic'
narrative,
there
will
be
enjoyment
or
stimulus
for
most.
Peter
J.
Boyce/University
of
Tasmania
THE
STORM
HAS
MANY
EYES
A
Personal
Narrative
Henry
Cabot
Lodge
New
York:
W.W.
Norton
[Toronto:
George
J.
McLeod],
1973,
272pp,
$8.75
Against
a
background
of
what
can only
be
described
as
oversimplified
issues
facing the
United
States
and
the
world,
particularly
during
the
seventeen
years
following
the
draft
of
General Eisenhower
for
presi-
dent
in
1952,
Henry
Cabot
Lodge has
woven
an
engaging,
even
be-
guiling,
tapestry
of
his
own
participation
on the
national
and
inter-
national
scene.
The
simplicity
of
the
narrative
belies
the
real
com-
plexity
of
the political
issues
of those
days;
yet
it
is
a
useful
vehicle
for
framing
his
concise
retrospective
thoughts
on problems
such
as
that
of Vietnam:
'...
one
can
now
say
that
much
trouble
would
have
been
avoided
if,
before
the
French
left
Indochina,
President
Truman
had
asked
the
United
Nations
in
the
early
ig5os
to
intervene
...
as
an
international
presence
...'
Cabot
Lodge
is
qualified
to
make
this
statement.
The
years
in
which
Mr
Lodge
was
American
ambassador
to the
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