Book Reviews: The United States in World Affairs, 1951. By RICHARD P. STEBBINS and the Research Staff of the Council on Foreign Relations. (New York: Harper & Brothers. 1952. Pp. xiv, 473. $5.00.)

DOI10.1177/106591295200500413
Published date01 December 1952
Date01 December 1952
AuthorBrownlee Sands Corrin
Subject MatterArticles
666
The
United
States
in
World
Affairs,
1951.
By
RICHARD
P.
STEBBINS
and
the
Research
Staff
of
the
Council
on
Foreign
Relations.
(New
York:
Harper
&
Brothers.
1952.
Pp.
xiv,
473.
$5.00.)
This
volume,
the
sixth
in
the
Council
on
Foreign
Relations’
postwar
annual
surveys
of
American
foreign
relations
and
policy,
merits
the
atten-
tion
of
both
professor
and
student.
The
high
standard
set
in
the
prewar
series
by
Walter
Lippmann
and
others,
and
continued
by
John
C.
Campbell
in
the
first
three
volumes
of
the
postwar
series,
has
been
fully
maintained
by
Richard
P.
Stebbins
and
his
assistants
on
the
Council’s
research
staff.
World
events
and
the
United
States’
position
in
Korea,
Iran,
Ger,
many,
and
Japan,
for
example,
are
described
in
a
clear
and
readable
fashion.
This,
in
itself
a
difficult
task,
represents
only
a
small
segment
of
a
larger
and
successful
effort.
There
is
presented,
with
a
sensitive
yet
tough
objectivity,
an
account
of
complex
and
delicate
relationship
of
and
between
events,
and
United
States’
policy
formulation
and
implementation.
This
is
a
book
about
conflict
and
some
hopeful
harmony
which
seems
to
characterize
the
year
1951.
Here
one
will
find
a
record
of
physical
and
ideological
conflict
between
the
United
States
and
the
Soviet
Union;
cracks
in
Western
unity
and
patch ing,pl aster
remedies;
domestic
cleavages
regarding
means
and
ends,
their
deepening
or
healing;
and
cautious
estimations
as
to
our
particular
and
over-all
successes
or
failures.
BROWNLEE
SANDS
CORRIN.
Goucher
College.
The
Secretary-General
of
the
United
Nations:
His
Powers
and
Practice.
By
STEPHEN
M.
SCHWEBEL.
(Cambridge:
Harvard
University
Press.
1952.
Pp.
xiv,
299.
$4.75.)
Displaying
considerable
objectivity
in
approaching
a
highly
contro-
versial
contemporary
subject,
Stephen
Schwebel
has
produced
a
doctoral
dissertation
which
should
be
of
real
value
to
professors
and
students
of
international
relations.
If
the
book
may
be
said
to
be
written
from
a
point
of
view,
it
is
that
of
the
&dquo;international
spirit&dquo;
which
Paul-Henri
Spaak
has
attributed
to
Trygve
Lie
himself.
In
discussing
the
&dquo;political
powers
and
practice&dquo;
of
the
Secretary-
General
and
his
senior
associates
during
the
formative
years
of
the
United
Nations,
Schwebel
describes
sympathetically
the
steady
growth
of
Mr.
Lie’s
efforts
to
assume
a
positive
role
in
the
resolution
of
the
East-West
&dquo;conflict.&dquo;
Schwebel
shows
an
appreciation
of
informal
groups
and
organization
in
portraying
the
behind-the-scenes
consultations
and
negotiations
which

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