Book Reviews and Notices : Foundations for World Order. BY ERNEST LLEWELLYN WOODWARD, J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, EDWARD HALLETT CARR, WILLIAM E. RAP-PARD, ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS, FRANCIS BOWES SAYRE, and EDWARD MEAD EARLE. (Denver: University of Denver Press. 1949. Pp. 174. $3.00.)

• Author: Totton J. Anderson
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200317
• Published date: 01 September 1949
• Date: 01 September 1949
• Subject Matter: Articles

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any schemes for a currency, fiscal, or customs union of Western Europe,
since he sees in them forerunners of formal federation. All that he rec-
ommends in the way of a closer union is a joint council representing
governments, subject to the rule of unanimity, and working through a
military and an economic general staff.
The American reader whose thinking is steeped in the tradition of
formal federation will question whether such a loose union, relying pri-
marily on &dquo;the mutual trust of its members and their will to cooperate,&dquo;
can be the long,term goal for the cooperation of Western Europe, but he
should realize that it is quite natural for men reared in the tradition of
informal Commonwealth relations to take this view.
GEORGE V. WOLFE.
The College of Idaho
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