Book Reviews : L'Amministrazione Fiduciaria Internazionale. By CARLO GUIDO RAGGI. (Milan: A. Giuffrè. 1950. Pp. 404. L. 1650.)

• Published date: 01 December 1951
• Date: 01 December 1951
• Author: Josef L. Kunz
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295100400413
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Behind Closed Doors deals with two quite distinct topics. The first
stresses Soviet plans for military and revolutionary action. Disclosure is
made that just prior to five o’clock in the morning of Friday, January 28,
1949, the Politburo arrived at a master plan to effect a showdown with
the West, and at the same time established a timetable with a flexible
D-day between 1952 and 1956. Emphasis is laid upon the existence and
use of interacting Soviet military and ideological weapons. Admiral
Zacharias and his informants reiterate the opinion that the Soviets are
a dynamic factor in world politics. Nonetheless the authors only repeat
that today we are experiencing a phase of the traditional Bolshevik pro-
gram stemming from Marx and Engels as interpreted by Lenin and more
lately by Stalin.
The second, pretty unsophisticated portion of the book considers
the position of the United States as a result of the dangers flowing from
Soviet plans and timetables. Here the authors assume the dual role of
global planners and developers of an American blueprint, following some
of Walter Lippman’s and George Kennan’s ideas, and suggesting that
the interests of the United States can best be served by a policy of limited
collective security in the form of a few bilateral alliances. In stressing
military aspects the authors overlook the advantage of firm ideological
bonds, which a general international organization may offer.
CARL Q. CHRISTOL.
University of Southern California.
L’Amministrazione Fiduciaria Internazionale. By CARLO GUIDO RAGGI.
(Milan: A. Giuffrè. 1950. Pp. 404. L. 1650.)
This is an exhaustive study dealing principally with Chapter XI of
the United Nations Charter, and with the trusteeship system, the trustee-
ship agreements, the system of control by the U.N., the problem of
sovereignty, and the termination of a trusteeship administration.
The work is extremely well documented. It makes painstaking use
of the documents of the San Francisco Conference and...