Book Reviews : World Affairs : Problems and Prospects. By ELTON ATWATER, WILLIAM BUTZ, KENT FORSTER, NEAL RIEMER. (New York: Appleton-Century- Crofts. 1958. Pp. 621. $6.95.) World Politics. By A. F. K. ORGANSKI. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1958. Pp. 461. $7.50.) Dilemmas of Politics. By HANS J. MORGENTHAU. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1958. Pp. 390. $7.50.) International Politics. By FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN. (6th ed.; New York: McGraw-Hill Book Cmpany. 1958. Pp. 745. $7.50.)

• DOI: 10.1177/106591295901200418
• Date: 01 December 1959
• Author: Willard F. Barber
• Published date: 01 December 1959
• Subject Matter: Articles

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the outstanding characteristics of a work of profound insight and under,
standing.
JOSEPH S. ROUCEK.
University of Bridgeport.
World Affairs : Problems and Prospects. By ELTON ATWATER, WILLIAM
BUTZ, KENT FORSTER, NEAL RIEMER. (New York: Appleton-Century-
Crofts. 1958. Pp. 621. $6.95.)
World Politics. By A. F. K. ORGANSKI. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
1958. Pp. 461. $7.50.)
Dilemmas of Politics. By HANS J. MORGENTHAU. (Chicago: The University
of Chicago Press. 1958. Pp. 390. $7.50.)
International Politics. By FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN. (6th ed.; New York:
McGraw-Hill Book Cmpany. 1958. Pp. 745. $7.50.)
The Atwater volume’s first chapter recites the casualties at Hiroshima,
genocide as practiced by Hitler, and Stalin’s liquidation of the kulaks (in
that sequence) to shock the reader and to build up within him a desire for a
world order which would make such activities impossible in the future. The
ideology of the authors finds frequent expression in references to the Amer-
ican Friends Service Committee. The basic Quaker philosophy is stated
under the rubric &dquo;The Proper Perspective for a Just and Peaceful World&dquo; in
which it is argued that such an order &dquo;can only be built on love, trust, and
confidence. It can never be built on hate, distrust, and fear ... Peace will
not be for the strong but for the just; that there will be neither peace until
men
learn to be just, nor justice until men determine to renounce violence.&dquo;
This preoccupation with moral values persists to the extreme that only in
a footnote in the appendix is there to be found reference to the National
Security Council, an organ of American power.
Dr. Morgenthau, on the other hand, states that the power struggle is
&dquo;elemental, undisguised and all-pervading.&dquo; There is a relationship be-
tween morality and power, adds Professor Morgenthau, in that morality
limits the means that power employs; morality places the stamp of approval
upon some actions which thereby become...