Book Reviews and Notices : The United Nations. By HERBERT V. EVATT. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1948. Pp. viii, 154. $2.50. )

• Author: Dell G. Hitchner
• Published date: 01 September 1948
• Date: 01 September 1948
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/106591294800100346
• Subject Matter: Articles

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For Political Scientists, the book is only an anthology of the current
ideas. It does not represent an original contribution as the author readily
admits.
CHARLES S. LACUGNA.
Seattle University.
The United Nations.

By HERBERT V. EVATT. (Cambridge: Harvard Uni-
versity Press. 1948. Pp. viii, 154. $2.50. )
This small volume consists of three lectures, revised for reading, deliver-
ed by Herbert V. Evatt at Harvard University in October, 1947. As leader
of the Australian delegation to the United Nations, Mr. Evatt draws on an
experience which begins with the framing of the Charter at San Francisco
and continues through the present. Through intimate association with all
phases of United Nations activity and as the now-recognized spokesman
for the middle and small nations in that body, he is able to speak with al-
most singular authority. His conclusions, therefore, should command the
attention and interest of all those who seek some plain and honest speaking
on the subject. In this, Mr. Evatt does not disappoint.
His study is divided into three sections: the formation, the working,
and the future of the United Nations. Mr. Evatt believes that the con-
clusions of peace settlements with Germany, Austria and Japan is of first im-
portance to give the United Nations some state of peace to maintain....