PATTERN FOR THE WEST

...and to establish community ownership of natural resources and giant basic industries...

...He says that when an inevitable revolution is underway it is wise to be the revolutionary power...

...The second half is to bring off this change-over in economic systems without sacrificing our heritage of democratic governments, the basic freedoms and the free initiative of the individual...

...to replace the profit motive with the incentives of the Welfare State...

...Smith, is to replace the market with planned distribution...

...He is confident it can be done...

...And, most important of all, he believes there is a sensible way by which the West can take the initiative and end the Cold War without provoking a hot one...

...He wants the United States to assume the leadership in bringing socialist democracy to Europe...

...Smith has the virtue of being able to look at his own country's foreign policy with the same detachment that he views the policies of other nations...

...Howard K. Smith is a calm, careful, objective reporter—an all too rare specimen in this time of hysteria...

...But he also finds merit in some aspects of both American and Soviet policy...

...Now, once more," he says, "the times have outrun a set of institutions and ways of thinking, creating an out-of-jointness that is the chief source of our troubles...

...Smith sees it, is "to blend the viable features of both worlds and cancel out their blind spots...

...This necessity for replacing private enterprise with a large measure of socialism accounts for Smith's inability to take "a clear-cut anti-Soviet stand," because, he says, "a good deal of the Soviet economic and social analysis of our times is shrewder and more to the point than much of the thinking about it that is going on in the West...

...He blames both sides for the Cold War and refuses to judge one "more guilty" than the other...

...He has proved those qualities over the years as chief European correspondent for CBS...

...Smith has contributed a challenging analysis of the situation in which our unhappy world finds itself and has suggested an equally challenging way out of the dilemma...

...The first thing to be done in Europe, then, says Mr...

...That is why Smith finds it equally impossible to take an anti-American stand...

...He is less convincing in his explanations of Soviet behavior during that period...

...Some critics will call him naive for those explanations...

...It is safe to say that his book deserves wider circulation and more consideration than it will get...

...He proves them again in this book...

...He is convincing in his analysis of the shortcomings of U. S. policy in Europe since the end of the war...

...others will call him naive for the course of action he urges on the United States...

...Smith's thesis is that Western civilization has been undergoing a long-term crisis since the beginning of this century, a "pulsation" similar to the one that broke up the feudal-istic system and ushered in the commercial era...

...Reviewed by Graham Hovey AS Howard K. Smith concedes, his thought-provoking book will please neither the promoters of the American Century nor those of the Communist Century...

...Whether they are or not, Mr...

...But abandoning capitalism is only half the "clear-cut, two-fold mission" of our century...

...We are still trying to live by the Commercial Principles, he argues, although the market is no longer an adequate distributor of the world's goods, and the profit motive is outdated and discredited...

...Nail the banner of change to our own mast and ride an irrepressible tide to safe harbor," he says...

...For all their distorted vision, the Soviets have seen the clear fact that the continuance of capitalism is impossible in Europe...

...Both groups may be right...

...For America, despite some major blunders, "has undeniably been the sole sustenance of liberal political freedoms in postwar Western Europe...

...The necessity of our time, as Mr...