CARLSON, WILLIAM S. Greenland Lies North. Pp. 306. New York: The Mac millan Co., 1941. $3.00

DOI10.1177/000271624222100148
Published date01 May 1942
Date01 May 1942
Subject MatterArticles
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there is preliminary sense of community
Dealing as it does with the problems of
among the units to be federated. Accord-
transition from war to peace, the study
ingly, he advises less than complete federa-
constitutes the latest and most complete
tion in some areas, something far short of
summary of current knowledge and ac-
universal federation, possibly great disparity
cepted opinion on such questions as annexa-
in the internal order of the associated states,
tion, conquest, mediation, armistice, peace
and what amounts to a disciplined groping
negotiation, and others. The introduction
toward the ideal world order. He definitely
being undated, there is, apart from the
rejects the idea of a balance of federations
publication date, nothing to indicate when
as just as unworkable as the balance-of-
these lectures were given at the Institute.
nations idea. In his detailed plan he advo-
If my memory serves me rightly, they were
cates a unicameral Assembly, a World
delivered at Geneva during the time of the
Court, an Economic and Financial Or-
&dquo;phony&dquo; war, when Belgium still hoped to
ganization, a Social Organization (Labor,
be spared and when it was not thought wise
Health, and so forth), and commissions for
for any Belgian to make controversial as-
Territorial Administration, Transit and
sertions.
All the statements implying a
Communications, and Intellectual Co-opera-
judgment on current affairs are therefore
tion.
overcautious and altogether too dispassion-
This may not be a blueprint, but it should
ate considering the burning actuality of
be an indispensable addition to the library
nearly every aspect of the problems dealt
of everyone who is concerned about world
with.
The study accordingly contributes
peace.
little, even from a purely technical and
ROY V. PEEL
legal angle, to the all-important question
Indiana University
(next to winning the war) as to how to
make peace after the present conflagration.
KAECKENBEECK, GEORGES. De la guerre à
Most of the techniques so competently de-
la paix. Pp. 103. Geneva: L’Institut
scribed and characterized by the author
Universitaire des Hautes Études Inter-
will, I am afraid, have little more than his-
nationales, 1940. 2 francs.
torical interest; for it is very doubtful that
This small book by Dr. Georges Kaecken-
the end of hostilities, the subsequent period
beeck, eminent Belgian lawyer and former
of transition-&dquo;a bastard or twilight inter-
member of the Legal Section of the League
val, half war and half peace,&dquo; in the words
of Nations Secretariat, at one time presi-
of Leonard Woolf-and finally the stage of
dent of the Upper Silesian Arbitral Tri-
shaping a...

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