Book Reviews : The Senate of the United States, Volumes I and II. By GEORGE H. HAYNES. (New York: Russell and Russell, 1960. Pp. x, 567, 551.)

• Published date: 01 June 1960
• Date: 01 June 1960
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/106591296001300231
• Subject Matter: Articles

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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,...