Book Reviews : International Politics in the Atomic Age. By JOHN H. HERZ. (New York: Co lumbia University Press, 1959. Pp. viii, 360. $6.00.)

Published date01 June 1960
DOI10.1177/106591296001300232
AuthorHoward J. McMurray
Date01 June 1960
Subject MatterArticles
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One must add that the book is marred by certain incongruities. Only a few
of the historians stick rigidly within the 1950-55 compass prescribed in the title.
There is a great deal of overlapping. In particular, Professor Fitzgerald’s essay on
&dquo;Australia and Asia&dquo; recapitulates much of the information already presented
in Professor Harper’s piece on &dquo;Australia and the United States.&dquo; Nor is there
a single mode of interpretation. Fitzgerald is very critical of American Pacific
policy and hospitable to Asian notions; Harper, Alexander, and Greenwood,
while not failing to criticize American policies, are nonetheless more inclined to
accept a close relation with the U.S. The typesetter egregiously identifies the
first British Labour Foreign Secretary as &dquo;Bevan&dquo; and makes reference to the
American pundit, &dquo;Walter Lippman.&dquo; Fitzgerald also asserts without a shred of
documentation that in 1951 &dquo;It was made plain that Australia also must refrain
from such recognition [of Communist China] if she wished to gain from Amer-
ican any guarantee of security to offset the re-emergence of Japan.&dquo; Withal,
Australia in World Azures is by far the most important work on Australian
external relations since Jack Shepherd’s Australia’s Interest and Policies in the
Far East which appeared a full generation ago.
R. N. ROSECRANCE
University of California, Los Angeles
The Senate of the United States, Volumes I and II. By GEORGE H. HAYNES.
(New York: Russell and Russell, 1960. Pp. x, 567, 551.)
This is a reissue by Russell and Russell, Inc., of the monumental work orig,
inally published by Houghton, Mifllin Company in 1938. It is from the same
plates and has the format of the original. The work is made available once again
to political scientists and libraries.
M. E.
International Politics in the Atomic Age. By JOHN H. HERZ. (New York: Co-
lumbia University Press, 1959. Pp. viii, 360. $6.00.)
Of the many valuable studies published on the...

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