Shorter Notices
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205901400317 |
| Published date | 01 September 1959 |
| Date | 01 September 1959 |
| Subject Matter | Shorter Notices |
Shorter
Notices
DISENGAGEMENT
IN
EUROPE.
By
Michael
Howard.
1958.
(Middlesex:
Penguin.
viii,
92pp.
500.)
This
is
a
timely
piece,
for
the
recent
crisis
in
Berlin
has
provoked
renewed
attention
to
the
concept
of
military
disengagement
in
Europe.
This
concept
is
not
a
mere
academic
matter
but
rather
the
source
of
challenging
issues
in
international
affairs
which
could
have
the
happiest
or
the direst
consequences.
The account
here
is
brief
and
straight-
forward;
it
has the
twin
merits
of
balance
and
objectivity,
representing
the
proceedings
of
a
Study
Group
which
consisted
of
two
senior
officers,
four
writers
on
defence
policy,
and
two
former
Ministers
of
the
Crown.
Mr.
Michael
Howard,
Lecturer in
War
Studies
at
King's
College,
London,
has
summarized
the
findings
with a
pleasantly
terse
style
that
at
once
meets
the
needs
of
the
student
of
international
diplomacy
as
well
as
those
of
the
general
reader.
[H.
IAN
MACDONALD]
COMMON
SENSE
AND
NUCLEAR
WARFARE.
By
Bertrand
Russell.
1959.
(Toronto:
Thomas Nelson
&
Sons.
93pp.
Paper
75¢,
cloth
$1.65.)
Writing
with
clarity
and
conviction,
Russell shows
how
suicide
may
be
avoided.
No
pacifist,
he
insists
both
sides
must
make
conces-
sions.
'Would
you
rather
have
a
world
in
which
both
friends
and
foes
survive,
or
a
world
in
which
both
are
extinct?"
[W. H.
POPE]
DEFENCE
AND
THE
ENGLISH-SPEAKING
ROLE.
By
Norman
Angell.
1958.
(Toronto:
Ryerson.
viii,
ll6pp.
$2.50.)
For
more
than
half
a
century
Mr.
Norman
Angell
has
been
writing
on
the
theme
of
war
and
peace.
In
his
latest
book,
Defence
and
the
English-Speaking
Role,
Mr.
Angell
returns
to
his
theme with
an
urgency
which
permeates
every page.
After
pointing
out
that
a
nuclear
war
could
annihilate
both
the
nations
and
blocs
involved,
he
sees
the
establishment
of
a
world
government
as
the
only
solution to
mutual
chaos. [R.
H.
Roy]
IF
THE
CHURCHES
WANT
WORLD
PEACE.
By
Norman
Hill
and
Doniver
Lund.
1958.
(Galt: Brett-Macmillan.
vi, 148pp.
$3.00.)
This
is
a
well
intentioned but
repetitious
small
book
with
a
mis-
leading
title.
It
deals
not
with
all
churches,
but
almost
exclusively
with
the
Protestant
Churches
of
the
United
States;
and
it
argues,
not
that
the
churches
can
bring
about world
peace,
or
that
they
are
insincere
in
their
efforts,
as
the
title
seems
to
imply;
but
rather
that
they
should
clarify
their
thinking
about
their
role in
relation
to
international
affairs.
[GEORGE
W.
BROWN]
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