Book Reviews and Notices : Governments of Danubian Europe. BY ANDREW GYORGY. (New York: Rinehart & Company. 1949. Pp. viii, 376. $4.00.)

• Author: Robert G. Neumann
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200439
• Published date: 01 December 1949
• Date: 01 December 1949
• Subject Matter: Articles

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In the Epilogue the author reiterates his opinion that Latin America’s
large problems are economic; that &dquo;two-thirds of the population works
under semi-feudal conditions,&dquo; and that less than 10 percent of the popu-
lation controls 90 percent of the wealth. (This last statistic is not espe-
cially revealing. It has been used to describe many countries.) Mr. Jo-
sephs believes that &dquo;Per6n will continue to be the man to watch in Latin
America&dquo; and ends by quoting an unnamed Latin American President
as saying, &dquo;the leadership we need belongs to you, the United States.
It’s vour iob, whether vou want it or not.&dquo;
WILLARD F. BARBER.
Washington, D. C.
Governments of Danubian Europe. BY ANDREW GYORGY. (New York:
Rinehart &
Company. 1949. Pp. viii, 376. $4.00.)
The author of this small volume apparently intended to write a
text-book on a group of Eastern and South-Eastern European states. This
intention illustrates both the scope and the limitations of this work.
The book is divided into separate essays on Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Rumania, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria, and contains as well two introductory
chapters and a concluding section on Alliances and Federation Projects in
the area. A
number of useful documents are printed in an appendix. The
. choice of countries will not meet universal approval, as one might easily
prefer to have Austria included in any discussion of the Danubian region,
or one might confine the study to the system of Soviet satellites, in which
case Poland should have a place.
The book’s approach is primarily historical rather than analytical
and that is, in the opinion of this reviewer, its principal defect, for it results
in a rather stereotyped treatment and fails to emphasize the interweaving
and interrelation of events and methods for which the Balkans are so
typical. Now it might be argued that a more complex, analytical treat-
ment would frighten away the novice and would therefore fail to ac-
complish the...