Book Reviews : United Nations and Domestic Jurisdiction. By M. S. RAJAN. (Published under the auspices of the Indian Council of World Affairs. Bombay: Orient Long mans, 1958. Pp. xiii, 679. 50s.)

DOI10.1177/106591296001300243
Date01 June 1960
Published date01 June 1960
Subject MatterArticles
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freedoms denied by &dquo;apostolic bureaucrats.&dquo; The result: A possible upsurge of
religious faith, particularly in terms of a new reliance on &dquo;the value of inward
discipline based upon formal dogma as interpreted by designated ministers.&dquo; In
order to sense a loss of external freedom, there must be some external freedom
to lose. Even when all the many distinctions among Latin-American countries
are considered, it seems hardly likely that the loss of freedom as a consequence of
reform poses a very real problem to many people in the area. One hastens to
report that the general tendency of the remainder of the book, including other
parts of Editor Pike’s introduction as well as his subsequent article, is to give
unbiased, almost painfully objective consideration to the roles of religion, Church
and churches in Latin-American freedom and reform.
If anything is slighted in the volume, it would be the place of land mo-
nopoly in contemporary Latin-American programs for economic and political
change. The minimization of this topic is notably evident in Professor Richard
N. Adams’ article on, of all things, Freedom and Re f orm in Rural Latin Amer-
ica, where three out of twenty-seven pages are devoted to a sort of off-hand
report on the land tenure question. Other articles either give the subject passing
mention only, or omit it altogether.
Several of the articles in Freedom and Re f orm in Latin America do add up
to a fruitful, enriching contribution to Latin-American studies, and it is in that
light that the book is recommended for the shelves of political scientists in
general and Latin Americanists in particular.
JAMES L. BUSEY
University of Colorado
United Nations and Domestic Jurisdiction. By M. S. RAJAN. (Published under
the auspices of the Indian Council of World Affairs. Bombay: Orient Long-
mans, 1958. Pp. xiii, 679. 50s.)
In order that the Covenant of the League of Nations might be made palat-
able to the Senate, the United States delegation...

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