Book Reviews: Titoism and the Cominform. By ADAM B. ULAM. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1952. Pp. viii, 243. $4.00.)

• Author: William J. Rose
• Date: 01 December 1952
• Published date: 01 December 1952
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295200500444
• Subject Matter: Articles

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and events covered. Norway, for example, is given the longest and most
sympathetic treatment while the toughest line is taken towards Finland.
In the consideration of Denmark the role of the Freedom Council is
overplayed, with less appreciation of the work of the Home Front and
the regular political parties. No adequate picture of the development of
Sweden as a modern democratic state is presented.
Proofreading by someone thoroughly familiar with the Scandinavian
languages would have prevented some errors. More serious are the
statements that the United States &dquo;hardly takes any imports in return
for its exports&dquo; (p. 296) and that the Swedish Social Democrats have
held a &dquo;majority of seats in both First and Second Chambers combined&dquo;
ever since 1920 (p. 259). Nothing is said of the pressures exerted on
Scandinavia during the Winter War or of the Danish-Icelandic constitu-
tional controversies. Norway obtains a monopoly in the Viking expedi-
tions, while Sweden apparently has no history worth mention. The
Greenland agreement was signed by Henrik Kauffmann and Cordell Hull
on April 9, 1941, the anniversary of the occupation of Denmark - and
not a day later as stated on page 67.
,
Despite these observations the book fills a real need and will be
welcomed by political scientists, journalists, and other students of public
affairs. It may be used together with The Northern. Countries (published
by the Foreign Ministries of the five States in 1951) as an up-to-date and
indispensable handbook on an increasingly important but still too-much-
.
neglected region.
ERIC C. BELLQUIST.
University of California, Berkeley.
Titoism and the Cominform. By ADAM B. ULAM. (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press. 1952. Pp. viii, 243. $4.00.)
In the high summer of 1948 the western world was startled by the
announcement from Moscow that Yugoslavia had been expelled from the
Cominform, created the previous autumn as a meeting-place for the nine
Communist Parties of...