Book Reviews and Notices : Grundlinien der Antiken Rechts-und Staatsphilosophie, Zweite Erwei, terte Auflage. BY ALFRED VERDROSS-DROSSBERG. (Wien: Springer-Verlag. 1948. Pp. viii, 183. $4.50.)

• Author: Eric Voegelin
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200319
• Published date: 01 September 1949
• Date: 01 September 1949
• Subject Matter: Articles

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informs the reader that at the World Youth Festival held at Prague in
1947 the Arabs and the Jews of the Palestine delegation presented a
United Front (p. 504). What he does not point out is that the Palestine
delegation was split, one branch representing the Zionists and the other
the Communists, and the two sections were in constant rivalry. It was
the Communist group that was made up of Jews and Arabs, and their
unity rested on a common anti-Zionist policy. In Palestine, at least before
the establishment of Israel, even this unity was not real, for the Palestine
Communist Party maintained separate organizations for Jews and Arabs
(Year Book, p. 43).
As do all Revisionists, Mr. Ziff rejects the present partition of Pales-
tine. He believes in a Jewish national home in the whole of Palestine,
including Transjordan, and this home should form a federation with
the &dquo;Christian...