Book Reviews and Notices : The Rape of Palestine. BY W. B. ZIFF. (London: St. Botolph's Publishing Co. 1948. Pp. x, 599. 18s.)

• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200318
• Author: L.C. Green
• Published date: 01 September 1949
• Date: 01 September 1949
• Subject Matter: Articles

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his views on &dquo;The Constitutional Foundations&dquo; well known in his capacity
as chairman of the committee to frame a world constitution.
His con-
tribution is a vigorous demand for world government.
Francis Bowes Sayre authoritatively discusses the application of the
United Nations’ Charter to the problem of &dquo;Dependent Peoples.&dquo; Fi-
nally, Edward Meade Earle offers an analysis of the nature of power
politics in his lecture on &dquo;National Power.&dquo;
The discussions are stimulating and opinions clash, but majority
agreement, if not unanimity, is reached on three points: New founda-
tions for world order are needed, and the atom bomb leaves little time
in which to conduct the search; the problem cannot be solved by the
&dquo;institutional approach,&dquo; and particularly not by the United Nations;
political power cannot be legislated out of existence, but it can be ori-
ented toward a rationally defined and universally accepted concept of
morality.
The limitations of speeches which have not been thoroughly edited
for presentation in book form are too well known to deserve extended
comment. Rhetorical questions and chatty digressions have not been de-
leted. A brief biographical sketch prefaces each contribution and some
useful &dquo;Suggestions for Further Reading&dquo; are appended, although an
index has been omitted. Nevertheless, the University of Denver Press
is to be congratulated upon the unusually attractive design and format of
this &dquo;first list&dquo; book.
TOTTON J. ANDERSON.
University of Southern California.
The Rape of Palestine. BY W. B. ZIFF. (London: St. Botolph’s Pub-
lishing Co. 1948. Pp. x, 599. 18s.)
Mr. Ziff is an American Revisionist who supported the Irgun Zvai
Leumi and was calling for terrorist activity in Palestine as early as 1938.
He bitterly condemns Dr. Weizmann, Mr. Ben Gurion and almost the
entire Zionist leadership for weakness and vacillation. It must not be
forgotten, however, that the group he...