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• Author: Taraknath Das
• Published date: 01 March 1951
• Date: 01 March 1951
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0002716251274001107
• Subject Matter: Articles

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respondence with the author to make it
tion of former Japanese industry; and the
equivalent to a third edition, is published
law on the eight-hour working day; safety
for Harvard’s Blue Hill Meteorological Ob-
of labor and social insurance; reform of
servatory through the efforts of many per-
national education, as a result of which the
sons who volunteered to assist in the un-
Korean language has been reinstated in the
dertaking. It contains 181 illustrations and
schools; school network extended and en-
a remarkable list of more than 950 ref-
rollment of students enlarged&dquo; (p. 179).
erences to the literature.
These reforms apparently influenced the
I. R. TANNEHILL
masses to be staunch supporters of the
Washington, D. C.
North Korean Government. As for South
Korea, the authors feel strongly that
needed and lasting reforms were not
brought about in the postwar period. &dquo;The
OTHERS
United States stood ready to be generous
about supplying Korea with financial as-
MCCUNE, GEORGE M., with the collabora-
sistance once the country had an established
tion of ARTHUR L. GREY, JR. Korea To-
government, but it wars, apparently unwill-
day. Pp. xxi, 372. Cambridge, Mass.: ing to make material changes in the exist-
Harvard University Press, 1950. $5.00.
ing social-economic pattern which could
The late Professor George M. McCune
help to free the people from political manip-
was for many years engaged in research on
ulation through the feudal agricultural sys-
Korea. He intended to write a compre-
tem&dquo; (p. 270).
hensive study of Korean history from
The authors bring out clearly that so far
ancient times to the present ’day. His
as the United States was concerned the
untimely death prevented him from com-
division of Korea at the thirty-eighth
pleting his work, and the book under re-
latitude was not intended to be a per-
view was prepared for publication by Pro-
manent partition of the country into two
fessor McCune’s collaborator, Arthur L.
zones.
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