Book Reviews : La Cour Suprême et le Problème Communiste aux États-Unis. By JEAN-PIERRE LASSALE. (Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1960. Pp. 275.)

• DOI: 10.1177/106591296101400426
• Author: Brownlee Sands Corrin
• Published date: 01 December 1961
• Date: 01 December 1961
• Subject Matter: Articles

981

of

the

total

vote.

As

men,

they

are

without

question

interesting

figures

living

dur-

ing

an

exciting

period

in

the

history

of

America’s

largest

city.

As

to

program,

the

author

inadvertently

informs

us

that

they

really

had

none.

As

a

study

of

the

New

York

Workingmen’s

Movement

1829-1837,

this

is

a

competent

work

of

historical

scholarship,

with

extensive

notes

and

a

complete

bibliography.

University

of

Arizona

CURRIN

V.

SHIELDS

La

Cour

Suprême

et

le

Problème

Communiste

aux

États-Unis.

By

JEAN-PIERRE

LASSALE.

(Paris:

Librairie

Armand

Colin,

1960.

Pp.

275.)

The

Supreme

Court

publication

by

Jean-Pierre

Lassale

reviews

the

attitudes

of

the

Court

in

regard

to

communism

during

the

years

between

1947

and

1957.

Divided

into

three

parts,

the

role

and

position

of

the

Court

in

relation

to

Congress

and

anticommunist

legislation

is

given

first

consideration,

freedom

of

speech

and

association

serving

as

central

themes.

The

Smith

Act,

the

Internal

Security

Act

of

1950,

the

Communist

Control

Act

of

1954,

and

their

constitutionality,

as

well

as

the

nature

and

control

of

congressional

investigating

committees,

are

major

subjects

of

inquiry

within

this

division.

Part

II

examines

the

Supreme

Court

in

relation

to

legislation

and

administrative

action

emerging

from

the

several

states,

special

emphasis

being

placed

upon

the

role

of

the

states

in

control

of

subversive

activity;

the

&dquo;due

process&dquo;

clause

and

control

over

local

legislation;

and

questions

of

federal

supremacy

and

dual

legislation.

Part

III

considers

the

Court’s

role

in

relation

to

the

development

and

administration

of

loyalty-security

programs

within

the

Executive

Branch.

A

partially

annotated

bibliography

of

good

quality

and

appendices

containing

the

1950

Internal

Security

Act

and

the

1954

Communist

Control

Act

complete

the

study.

While

somewhat

outdated,

the

work

is

a

product

of

careful

scholarship,

and

constitutes

a

reasonably

accurate

reflection

of

the

Court’s

role

and

relation-

ships

within

a

framework

of

questions

on

communism

in

the

United

States.

Of

perhaps

greater

significance

is

the

fact

that

Professor

Lassale’s

writing

suggests

that

our

foreign

colleagues

have

the

capacity

to

describe

and

analyse

such

difficult

problems

with

sensitivity

and

understanding

for

the

peoples

of

their

societies -

which

is

indeed

a

material

contribution

to

the

growth

of

positive

international

relations,

and

needs

increased

practical

demonstration

both

here

and

abroad.

Goucher

College

BROWNLEE

SANDS

CORRIN

The

Presidency

and

Individual

Liberties.

By

RICHARD

P.

LONGAKER.

(Ithaca,

New

York:

Cornell

University

Press,

1961.

Pp.

xii,

239.

$4.50.)

An

energetic

case

for

the

President

to

exercise

vigorous

and

forceful

leader-

ship

in

the

field

of

civil

rights

is

developed

in

this

book.

The

brief

historical

re-

view

is

followed

by

an

evaluation

of

the

leadership

role of

Presidents

Wilson,

Roosevelt,

Truman,

and

Eisenhower

in

the

area

of

individual

liberties.

President-

ial

leadership

in

Congress

and

within

the

executive

household

is

examined

and