Book Reviews : La Belgique et l'aide économique aux pays sous-développés. By an interuniver sity study commission of the [Belgian] Royal Institute of International Re lations. (Brussels: Royal Institute of International Relations and The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1959. Pp. 534. 450 frs.)
| Published date | 01 June 1960 |
| Author | Peter H. Rohn |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591296001300245 |
| Date | 01 June 1960 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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affairs
of
countries
with
non..Democratic
regimes!
The
goal
of
this
American-led
crusade
is
to
contain
and,
later,
eradicate
communism
from
the
face
of
the
earth.
Since
this
task
can
be
accomplished
only
if
America
herself
is
free
of
Commu-
nists,
the
author
proposes
the
alternatives
of
(1)
shipping
all
American
Com-
munists
to
some
remote
place
such
as
Australia
or
New
Zealand
(one
can
imag-
ine
the
cheering
welcoming
committees!)
or
(2)
depositing
them
next
to
the
Soviet
border.
Incidentally,
to
find
out
who
is
to
be
deported,
the
author
sug-
gests
granting
temporary
freedom
of
speech.
On
the
basis
of
what
everyone
says
during
this
period,
Communists
can
then be
identified.
Interestingly
enough,
a
similar
idea
seems
to
have
occurred
some
time
ago
to
Mao
Tse-tung;
and
the
whole
approach,
of
course,
does
raise
the
issue
of
what
the
contest
is
all
about:
after
it
was
all
over,
how
different
would
&dquo;we&dquo;
be
from
&dquo;them&dquo;?
The
author
recognizes
that
his
proposals
will
lead
to
war
with
the
Soviets.
Since
he
believes
communism
to
be
militarily
weak
(citing
Sputnik
as
evidence
for
this),
he
expects
the
Soviet
Union
to
collapse.
His
strategic
concepts
are
that
- after
thoroughly
destroying
the
areas - we
should
let
the
Communists
take
over
France,
Italy,
and
North
Africa
(because
there
are
too
many
native
Com-
munists
in
those
countries
anyhow);
and
concentrate
Western
defenses
in
Ger-
many
and
Scandinavia.
The
question
of
how
the
Russians
will
get
to
France
without
crossing
Germany
is
presumably
a
detail
which
can
be
ironed
out
later.
In
the
latter
portions
of
this
strange
book,
Mr.
Ratkovich
addresses
himself
to
the
problem
of
overpopulation.
He
advocates
drastic
reductions
in
the
pop-
ulation
of
some
selected
countries,
including
once
more
Italy
(Trieste,
anyone?),
which
should
be
reduced
to
a
population
of
6
to
10
million.
India,
too,
he
feels
should
reduce
her
population
to
30
million!
By
the
way,
any
author
has
a
right
to
expect
some
things
from
his
editor
and
publisher.
Whatever
thesse
expectations
may
be,
the
Greenwich
Book
Publishers
did
not
live
up
to
them.
Surely
any
editor
should
have
found
at
least
some
of
the
many
factual
and
printing
errors
and
should
have
protected
his
author
against
infelicities
of
style
which
have
to
be
read
to
be
believed.
One
can
understand
and
sympathize
with
the
author’s
anticommunism.
He
is
obviously
concerned
and
sincere.
While
one
hesitates
to
render
a
harsh
judg-
ment,
there
is
no
alternative
but
to
say
that
the
world
is
full
of
sincere,
misguided
people
who
advocate
incredible
solutions
to
our
problems.
Whatever
the
an-
swers
to
our
problems
may
be,
they
can
not
be
found
in
this
book.
Colorado
College
FRED
A.
SONDERMANN
La
Belgique
et
l’aide
économique
aux
pays
sous-développés.
By
an
interuniver-
sity
study
commission
of
the
[Belgian]
Royal
Institute
of
International
Re-
lations.
(Brussels:
Royal
Institute
of
International
Relations
and
The
Hague,
Martinus
Nijhoff,
1959.
Pp.
534.
450
frs.)
In
many
respects
this
is
a
typical
collective
work:
very
broad
coverage,
dif-
ferent
methods
and
points
of
view;
descriptions,
theories,
statistics,
comparisons,
definitions;
history,
economics,
sociology,
anthropology,
political
science.
The
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