Book Reviews and Notices : An Introduction to the Study of International Organization. By PITMAN B. POTTER. (New York and London: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. Fifth edition, 1947. Pp. ix, 479. $4.50.)

• Author: Chester C. Maxey
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294800100215
• Date: 01 June 1948
• Published date: 01 June 1948
• Subject Matter: Articles

191

Current

Readings

on

International

Relations.

Number

3.

Edited

by

NORMAN

J.

PADELFORD.

(Cambridge:

Addison-Wesley

Press.

1948.

Pp.

305.

$1.50

paper.)

This

third

collection

of

readings

on

contemporary

world

politics

con-

tinues

the

function,

commenced

by

the

first

two

numbers

of

the

series,

of

providing

a

representative

selection

of

materials

for

the

use

of

college

classes

and

adult

study

groups.

Since

no

textbook

can

possibly

be

kept

au

courant

in

the

face

of

the

rapidly

changing

international

situation,

and

since

most

in-

structors

wish

to

have

their

students

exposed,

at

least,

to

some

sources

of

information

beyond

a

textbook,

these

biannual

volumes

are

doubly

useful.

Still

further,

they

aid

in

solving

the

library

problem

involved

in

inexpensively

assembling

adequate

quantities

of

such

materials.

The

present

number

of

the

series

contains

articles

and

documents,

mainly

from

the

last

six

months

of

1947,

arranged

under

five

headings:

&dquo;Security,&dquo;

&dquo;Economic

Relations,&dquo;

&dquo;International

Organization,&dquo;

&dquo;Region-

alism,&dquo;

and

&dquo;Problems

in

Peacemaking.&dquo;

Each

section

is

introduced

with

a

note

by

the

editor

and

contains

suggestions

for

further

general

readings.

Particular

use

is

made

of

United

Nations

and

State

Department

documents;

five

maps

are

also

included.

The

task

of

selecting

and

editing

the

readings

has

been

thoughtfully

and

effectively

performed.

DELL

G.

HITCHNER.

University

of

Washington.

American

Perspective:

A

Monthly

Analysis

of

Foreign

Policy.

Vol.

I,

No. 9.

(Washington:

Foundation

for

Foreign

Affairs.

February,

1948.

Pp.

70.

Twenty-five

cents.)

The

ninth

number

of

this

periodical

contains

five

investigative

articles

on

various

topics

of

foreign

government

and

international

affairs.

The

first,

occupying

over

one-half

of

the

issue,

is

an

able

study

by

William

Chaikin,

&dquo;Party

Politics

and

Post-Liberation

French

Electoral

Laws,&dquo;

which

surveys

the

tortuous

story

of

French

elections

and

experiments

with

voting

systems

since

1944.

The

remaining

selections,

though

relatively

brief,

are

of

com-

parable

quality.

DELL

G.

HITCHNER.

University

of

Washington.

An

Introduction

to

the

Study

of

International

Organization.

By

PITMAN

B.

POTTER.

(New

York

and

London:

Appleton-Century-Crofts,

Inc.

Fifth

edition,

1947.

Pp.

ix,

479.

$4.50.)

This

is

a

new

book

under

an

old

title.

So

completely

has the

book

been

revised

and

rewritten

that

the

present

edition

(the

fifth)

bears

little

resemblance

to

the

book

with

which

teachers

of

political

science

in

the