Book Reviews and Notices : Contemporary Foreign Governments. BY THE ASSOCIATES IN GOVERNMENT, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy. (New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc. 1949. Pp. xxiv, 482. $3.75.)

• Date: 01 September 1949
• Published date: 01 September 1949
• Author: S. Grover Rich
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200339
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Colour Prejudice is perhaps weakest in that part where it should be
strongest. As a solution Sir Alan calls for a new outlook on the part of
both the whites and the Negroes. The former must be more liberal and
courteous, while the latter must forget the past and be prepared to credit
their white neighbors with good intentions.
L. C. GREEN.
University College, London.
Contemporary Foreign Governments. BY THE ASSOCIATES IN GOVERNMENT,
Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy.
(New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc. 1949. Pp. xxiv, 482. $3.75.)
This work is the latest revision of a text which first appeared in 1938
entitled The Governments of the Major Foreign Powers. It covers Great
Britain, France, Italy, Germany, the USSR, and Japan, and closes with a
section entitled &dquo;National Security and International Organization,&dquo; which
deals with such matters as the problem of security, regional collaboration,
the League of Nations, and the United Nations. The book also contains a
good bibliography, a satisfactory index, a list of illustrations (mostly maps
and charts of governmental and party structure), and documents, ranging
from Magna Charta to exerpts from General Marshall’s Harvard address
proposing the European Recovery Program.
Perhaps the best brief critique was expressed by one of the reviewer’s
students, who said of the work, &dquo;It doesn’t read like Forever Amber, but
it’s all there!&dquo; Like many other texts this book is too...