Book Reviews : Germany and the Future of Europe. Edited by HANS J. MORGENTHAU. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1951. Pp. viii, 180. $3.50.)

• Date: 01 December 1951
• Published date: 01 December 1951
• Author: Henry W. Ehrmann
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295100400422
• Subject Matter: Articles

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group of essays that may be commended not only to those especially
interested in these matters, but also to those who are not, yet may wish
to sample some of the best recent writing on the subject.
Mr. Grove’s volume, the second under review, is a factual survey
demonstrating the high degree of regional decentralization that has taken
place in English government, initially because of wartime needs, and now
apparently a permanent practice. Although the author confines himself
to the area about Manchester, and reaches no conclusions concerning the
extensive administrative developments he lists and describes, his work
will be most useful to those pursuing research on the subject of admin-
istrative decentralization and regionalism, as well as to those dealing
directly with these intermediate levels of public authority.
DELL G. HITCHNER.
University of Washington.
Germany and the Future of Europe. Edited by HANS J. MORGENTHAU.
(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1951. Pp. viii, 180. $3.50.)
This volume consists of fourteen lectures delivered at the University
of Chicago in the spring of 1950, and explores the German problem in its
social, economic, constitutional, and political ramifications. That hardly
any of the contributions, dealing as they do with fast-changing situations
and power constellations, appears dated at present, is a tribute to the
scholarly quality of all (or almost all) of the papers. Probably thanks
to the careful editorship, there is also far less overlapping and inconsist-
ency than is usually found in volumes of this kind.
In an introductory chapter, Professor Niebuhr sets the tone when he
asks whether and to which extent Germany has been restored to &dquo;health,&dquo;
a question of painful urgency in a divided world that requires what
Niebuhr calls a &dquo;new comradeship between Germany and Western civil-
ization&dquo; (p. 6). The majority of the other contributors describe Germany’s
health as precarious; the political structure as...