Book Reviews and Notices : American Diplomacy in the International Community. By MALBONE W. GRAHAM. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 1948. Pp. xvii, 279. $3.25.)

• Date: 01 September 1948
• Author: Charles P. Schleicher
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294800100335
• Published date: 01 September 1948
• Subject Matter: Articles

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States, combined, nevertheless, with some apprehension over the direction of
American ambitions in the Pacific. Following the turn of the century, how-
ever, Japanese emigration and expansion became a matter of concern to
both the English-speaking states, and thereafter Australian-American poli-
cies advanced steadily towards closer collaboration which eventuated ulti-
mately in the joint effort against Japan in World War II.
Two chapters of the study are rather over-ambitiously titled. Chapter
5, &dquo;American Precedents in Australian Politics,&dquo; will disappoint those inter-
ested in comparative political institutons. Chapter 6, &dquo;Imperialism in the
Southern and Western Pacific,&dquo; is devoted to a far narrower topic and falls
quite short of its title. The final chapter, &dquo;The New Pacific,&dquo; hardly does
justice to Australian-American contributions to the San Francisco Confer-
ence. The book is based on a wide range of source materials, including Aus-
tralian government documents and newspapers; it is fully documented and
contains an excellent bibliography. In a check of a dozen footnotes chosen
at random, each was found to be accurate; only one very minor misquotation
was encountered in the text.
DELL G. HITCHNER.
University of Washington.

American Diplomacy in the International Community
.
By MALBONE W.
GRAHAM. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 1948. Pp. xvii, 279.
$3.25.)
In Professor Graham’s series of six lectures, delivered in 1946 at the
Walter Hines Page School of International Relations and now published in
book form, the reader will look in vain for either a comprehensive historical
summary of American diplomacy or for an analysis of current policy. In-
stead he will find, sometimes in considerable detail but often in sweeping
generalities, facts and interpretations selected to illustrate policy in the six
periods into which the author divides American foreign relations down to
1946. Throughout the lectures an attempt is...