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.)

• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200319
• Author: Eric Voegelin
• 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 Assyrians as well as nearby Christian Lebanon&dquo; (p. 528).
If one ignores the extremism of the writer and makes allowances for
what are obvious exaggerations, The Rape of Palestine is a useful account
of Palestine under the Mandate written from a partisan standpoint. For
those who desire milder, more objective or pro-Arab literature, a selected
but useful bibliography is appended.
L. C. GREEN.
University College, London.
Grundlinien der Antiken Rechts-und Staatsphilosophie
,
Zweite Erwei,
terte Auflage. BY ALFRED VERDROSS-DROSSBERG.
(Wien: Springer-
Verlag. 1948. Pp. viii, 183. $4.50.)
Professor Verdross-Drossberg’s Outline of Ancient Philosophy of Law
and State has appeared in a second, enlarged edition. That a republica-
tion was necessary after only two years shows that the merits of the book
have found recognition. It is by far the best briefer study of the subject-
matter in existence, combining the advantages of a lucid textbook with
those of a scholarly treatise based on the sources as well as on the most
recent monographic literature. The second edition is substantially...