Book Reviews: The Scandinavian States and Finland: A Political and Economic Survey. By the ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. (London: Chatham House. 1951. Pp. viii, 312. $4.00.)
| Published date | 01 December 1952 |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591295200500443 |
| Date | 01 December 1952 |
| Author | Eric C. Bellquist |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
707
still
some
200,000
Jews
living
in
that
territory....
In
the
next
few
months
the
liquidation
wave
caught
up
with
most
of
them&dquo;
(p.
70).
Not
more
than
50,000
Jews
remained
alive
in
Poland
at
the
war’s
end.
A
year
later,
Polish
nationalist
underground
bands
were
still
murdering
Jews
in
numbers
in
an
effort
to
complete
what
Hitler’s
minions
of
death
had
not
quite
accomplished.
Dr.
Tenenbaum,
the
author,
has
made
an
obvious
effort
to
keep
the
book
on
a
purely
reportorial
level
and
only
occasionally
does
he
let
his
own
anguished
emotions
break
through.
It
is
not
analytical.
It
does
not
seek
to
ask
&dquo;Why?&dquo;
nor
to
give
an
answer.
Nor
is
his
book
really
the
story
of
an
underground
resistance
movement,
as
its
title
might
indicate.
Considerable
space
is
given
to
the
heroic
exploits
of
a
few
individual
leaders
of
the
final
resistances
in
the
flaming,
crashing
ghettos,
but
very
little
data
on
organizational
techniques
and
the
structure
of
the
resistance
are
given.
In
other
words,
Underground
is
an
uneven
record
of
human
cruelty
and
moral
depravity
manifesting
itself
on
such
a
gigantic
scale
against
a
hapless
people
that
the
enormity
of
it
defies
comprehension
of
the
senses.
E.
ADAMSON
HOEBEL.
University
of
Utah.
E.
ADAMSON
HOEBEL.
The
Scandinavian
States
and
Finland:
A
Political
and
Economic
Survey.
By
the
ROYAL
INSTITUTE
OF
INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS.
(London:
Cha-
tham
House.
1951.
Pp.
viii,
312.
$4.00.)
The
compilation
of
this
survey
was
entrusted
to
a
small
group
consisting
of
G.
M.
Gathorne-Hardy
(Chairman),
A. G.
Spencer,
Agnes
H.
Hicks,
and
G.
Turville-Petre.
They
&dquo;obtained
the
advice
of
other
authorities&dquo;
and
&dquo;enlisted
the
services
of
a
former
war-time
colleague,
Mrs.
Megan
Roberts.&dquo;
Few
have
followed
more
closely
the
Northern
European
scene
during
and
after
the
war.
Their
book
is
one
of
the
more
important
contributions
in
the
Chatham
House
series,
being
&dquo;a
broad,
factual
survey
of
the
countries
of
Northern
Europe.&dquo;
A
brief
introduction,
which
traces
the
salient
features
of
the
whole
region,
is
followed
by
a
record
of
the
progress
and
an
analysis
of
the
problems
of
Denmark
(including
the
Faeroes
and
Greenland),
Finland,
Iceland,
Norway,
and
Sweden.
Each
chapter
covers
roughly
the
same
ground - land,
people,
resources,
social
structure,
political
structure,
foreign
relations,
defence,
power
and
transport,
industry,
agriculture,
and
trade - though
the
emphasis
on
particular
topics
naturally
varies
from
country
to
country.
There
are
four
specially
drawn
maps,
a
working
bibliography,
and
a
detailed
index.
The
book
is
written
from
the
British
viewpoint
and
to
some
extent
reflects
the
authors’
wartime
outlook
with
regard
to
the
countries,
persons,
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