Book Reviews : UN: The First Ten Years. By CLARK M. EICHELBERGER. (New York: Harper & Brothers. 1955. Pp. xii, 108. $1.75.)
| DOI | 10.1177/106591295600900115 |
| Published date | 01 March 1956 |
| Date | 01 March 1956 |
| Author | J. William Robinson |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
176
The
co-authors
of
the
volume,
Professor
Leland
M.
Goodrich
of
Colum-
bia
University
(who
with
Edvard
Hambro
wrote
Charter
of
the
United
Nations,
the
first
American
commentary
on
the
UN)
and
Anne
P.
Simons,
a
former
staff
member
of
the
UN
Secretariat,
have
written
a
scholarly,
calm,
and
easy-to-read
study
of
United
Nations
practices.
The
reader
becomes
fully
aware
how
every
issue
before
the
organization
is,
and
in
the
nature
of
things
must
become,
a
political
issue,
so
that
even
seemingly
identical
issues
are
not
treated
alike.
The
College
of
Idaho.
GEORGE
V.
WOLFE.
UN:
The
First
Ten
Years.
By
CLARK
M.
EICHELBERGER.
(New
York:
Harper
&
Brothers.
1955.
Pp.
xii,
108.
$1.75.)
Ten
years
ago
Clark
Eichelberger
wrote
a
most
useful
pamphlet
called
The
United
Nations
Charter
-What
Was
Done
ant
San
Francisco.
Mr.
Eichelberger
has
now
given
us
a
more
ambitious
study
which
presents
a
picture
of
the evolution
and
development
of
the
United
Nations
against
the
background
of
the
major
crises
with
which
the
organization
has
had
to
deal
and
which
have
affected
it
in
the
rapidly
changing
world
of
its
first
decade.
The
four
principal
crises
resulting
in
the
stresses
and
strains
to
which
the
United
Nations
has
been
subjected
are
described
as
the
breakup
of
the
five-power
system,
the
advent
of
the
atomic
age,
the
rapid
liquidation
of
the
colonial
system,
and
the
accompanying
revolution
against
the
effects
of
economic
colonialism.
The
last-named
refers
to
the
attempt
by
the
under,
privileged
half
of
mankind
to
improve
its
living
standards
(the
&dquo;revolt
against
misery&dquo;).
In
the
author’s
view,
these
four
developments
are
basic
to
any
correct
measurement
or
analysis
of
the
achievements
of
the
United
Nations
thus
far,
though
he
makes
it
obvious
that
other
factors
must
also
be
taken
into
account.
Some
of
these,
such
as
the
selfishness
and
ambitions
of
governments
and
(on
the
other
side
of
the
ledger)
the
idealism
of
many
people
and
their
leaders
are,
of
course,
imponderables
which
are
difficult
to
measure.
In
any
event,
as
a
result
of
these
factors,
the
United
Nations
has
grown
in
a
number
of
unanticipated
ways.
As
Mr.
Eichelberger
states,
&dquo;It
is
a
sufficient
tribute
to
the
United
Nations
to
say
that
it
has
survived
these
changes.
It
is
an
even
greater
tribute
to
say
that
the
United
Nations
has
helped
the
world
to
survive
these
changes.
Indeed,
without
the
unify,
ing
moral
force
of
the
United
Nations
the
world
might
not
have
been
able
to
survive
them.&dquo;
Such
is
Mr.
Eichelberger’s
over-all
approach
to
the
subject.
He
then
presents
a
series
of
chapters
in
which
he
measures
specific
accomplishments
of
the
United
Nations
in
the
areas
of
peaceful
adjustment
and
settlement,
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