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
• Published date: 01 September 1949
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200317
• 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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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 ED-
WARD MEAD EARLE. (Denver: University of Denver Press. 1949. Pp.
174. $3.00.)
The Social Science Foundation of the University of Denver recently
commemorated its twentieth anniversary by sponsoring a series of ad-
dresses which have now been assembled in this volume. The central
theme of the collection is best described by a metaphor borrowed from
the script: the author-lecturers have set out on a search for some hidden
gyroscopic action which will bring the good ship &dquo;Humanity&dquo; back
on an even keel, at a time when it seems to have gone too far over to right
itself.
The contributors have earned reputations both as renowned scholars
and as active participants in the public affairs of Switzerland, Britain, and
the United States.
E. L. Woodward very ably catalogues a number of pre-conditions
of world order in &dquo;The Historical and Political Foundations.&dquo; J. Robert
Oppenheimer makes a useful distinction between the contributions of
science and those of technology to world unity in &dquo;The Scientific...