Book Reviews : Der Wiener Kongress und das Völkerrecht. By ROBERT RIE. (Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid Verlag. 1957. Pp. 173. DM 14.50.)

• Date: 01 December 1959
• Published date: 01 December 1959
• Author: George V. Wolfe
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295901200450
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Another weakness is the tendency of the author to assume that the en-
tire white population of South Carolina with the exception of a few liberals
is united on all that pertains to segregation. Although the political leaders
of the state have instituted a &dquo;party line&dquo; that for the moment stills major
criticism, serious regional, class, and occupational differences do exist. As
pressures mount and schools are closed, these divergencies will break out
into the open as they did in Virginia.
There is a growing need of serious studies free of the emotionalism and
partisanship that scar the present publication on all aspects of the segrega-
tion problem both in the South and in the rest of the nation. Ignorance and
emotionalism can leave lasting scars to poison future generations.
CLARK S. KNOWLTON.
New Mexico Highlands University.
Der Wiener Kongress und das Völkerrecht. By ROBERT RIE. (Bonn: Ludwig
Röhrscheid Verlag. 1957. Pp. 173. DM 14.50.)
In the preface, the author -
a one-time Austrian lawyer who is now a
member of the University of Alaska’s department of foreign languages -
states that the purpose of the study is to present an insight into those activi-
ties of the Congress of Vienna that have a bearing on the creation of inter-
national law.
Only the last of the book’s six chapters deals, however, with the author’s
proclaimed subject matter. Here are discussed suoh items as the declaration
abolishing, in principle, the African slave trade; the resolution regarding the
legal equality of the Jewish minority in the states of the German Confedera-
tion ; the resolution pertaining to the navigation on international rivers,
which also established an international Rhine Commission. The author does
not include any reference to those provisions of the protocol of the Congress
of Vienna that - ~as amended in 1818 by the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle
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settled in international law the vexatious questions of diplomatic rank
and precedent. On the other...