Eden's Memoirs and Power Politics
Neumann, William L.
he has witnessed working through his memory. In short, when the ego has been put down enough to create, it has also been put down enough to begin to try to love. The book closes with the promise...
...The military operation ended with the Canal jammed with sunken ships and with Egyptians convinced of the ruthlessness of the "imperialists...
...Eden's Memoirs and Power Politics Full Circle...
...After months of effort at reaching a joint position vis-a-vis the Soviet Union in regard to the first steps towards arms control, it still took a flying trip by Prime Minister Macmillan to Washington to reach even a makeshift front on this issue...
...6.95...
...Princeton University Press...
...his books include "Freudian-ism and the Modern Novel...
...It predicates nothing...
...He says nothing about the timing of a venture on the eve of the American Presidential elections when the importance of the pro-Israeli vote could be expected to tie President Eisenhower's hands...
...In the three years which have followed the Egyptians have demonstrated their ability to operate the Canal as efficiently as the previous owners, and a reluctant Britain and France have had to accept Nasser's continued rule...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...The Soviet decision was reportedly taken after a violent debate in which the argument for military action won only after the Anglo-French bombing of Egypt...
...Full Circle has drawn most attention for its treatment of the Indochina conflict which ended in 1954 and of the Suez Wars of 1956...
...The world of the 1950's is for him little different from that of the 1930's, with Russia replacing Germany...
...And he makes an effort to present the Franco-British military operation within an anti-Soviet framework, hinting that Egypt used Russian pilots in its air force...
...He passes quickly over British and French relations with Israel preceding the Israeli attack on Egypt...
...The United States must therefore attend to its present failures in military preparedness and restore its fighting power...
...Kenneth Thompson's essays on "political realism" urge the policy maker to take a more comprehensive approach to the Twentieth Century world of nations...
...RICHARD SCHICKEL reviews fiction regularly for The Progressive...
...Churchill's views prevailed, and the advocates of "limited war" were rebuffed for two years...
...It has no intention, that is to say no theology . . . Art is the purifying factor merely...
...Most of those who do this speak only in terms of "limited war" or "limited retaliation" with the hope that man can continue organized killing within an ethical framework that spares the mass of urban populations...
...The question raised is disturbing...
...R.W.B...
...Using these assumptions, Thompson reviews American thought about international relations and American postwar policies...
...His most recent book is "The Picaresque Saint...
...He promises a second volume which will deal with the prewar and war years...
...A charge has been made recently by a former State Department official that the Anglo-French attack probably tipped the balance in Moscow in favor of using force against Hungary...
...And it is a conclusion which remains valid...
...FREDERICK J. HOFFMAN is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin...
...John Foster Dulles, "a preacher in a world of politics" who had little regard for the consequences of his words, is given major blame for this characteristic...
...It was Churchill who believed that military action would be ineffective and might even take the world to the brink of a major war...
...Eden devotes little more than a half dozen pages to consideration of the new weapons and the question of arms control...
...Can students of international affairs still discuss the continuation of the international power struggle and assume the viability of the use of force...
...The word "realism" has been used to defend a wide variety of approaches, but Thompson associates it with the views held by Rein-hold Niebuhr,*E...
...lutes, therefore, have little meaning in politics and moral crusades no place in international politics...
...Both situations, according to Eden, were unfortunately complicated by the behavior of the United States...
...So the artists Darley and Clea are symbols not of a theory that only the artist may be saved, but of the relevancy of art and its unique insights for our situation...
...Reviewed by William L. Neumann One of the burdens of Coalition diplomacy is the amount of time and diplomatic energy often required to maintain the coalition...
...All this seems to posit a special class which alone is eligible for salvation...
...In this stand Dulles was strongly backed by Admiral Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who, like General MacArthur in 1950, dismissed the dangers of provoking Chinese intervention...
...LEWIS is a professor of English and American Studies at Yale...
...Political Realism and the Crisis of World Politics, by Kenneth W. Thompson...
...Faced with the complex situations which make up the American dilemma, he urges a recognition that power politics is here to stay and that in the game of national rivalry military and economic power are the means which determine the ends...
...Senators...
...This is one conclusion which can be drawn from Anthony Eden's account...
...His earlier career included the post of Foreign Secretary from 1935 to 1938 and again from 1940 to 1945...
...H. Carr, the late Nicholas Spykman of Yale, and Hans J. Morgenthau...
...Eden also feels that Dulles was too sensitive to the extremes of Congressional opinion and was willing to make major concessions to these elements without much regard for the effect of these concessions on his allies...
...The American attitude, Eden says, was limited to exerting moral pressure and in practice would have meant "conferences and resolutions, but not action...
...The big question is whether it still makes sense after President Truman's announcement in September, 1949, of a Soviet atomic explosion or after the dramatic demonstration of weapons delivery systems with the launching of Sputnik in October, 1957...
...AbsoTHE REVIEWERS RALPH K. HUITT, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, has worked on the staffs of several U.S...
...Probably the best answer is the statement made by Britain's military expert, Liddell Hart: "Man's greatest folly is his failure to recognize his own capacity for folly...
...His criticisms are often to the point and his analyses incisive...
...The two break through as artists and human beings not merely because they want so much to do their chosen work, but because they are willing to undergo the necessary psychic preparation to do it well...
...The Memoirs of Anthony Eden...
...WILLIAM L. NEUMANN, formerly director of the Foundation for Foreign Affairs, is a professor of history at Goucher College...
...Those who feel that statesmen have yet to reshape their thinking in the face of the harsh facts of thermonuclear war will only have this conclusion sadly confirmed by this memoir...
...The book closes with the promise that the two lovers will be reunited on a new plane...
...Compromise made sense in dealing with the Communists of Viet Nam, but compromise with Egypt smacked of Munich and appeasement...
...676 pp...
...Eden's memoirs are limited to his recent service, first as Foreign Secretary under Winston Churchill from 1951 to 1955 and as Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957...
...But Pursewarden, the one mature artist among Durrell's characters, writes: "I see art more and more clearly as a sort of manuring of the psyche...
...261 pp...
...The record is a sorry one, and Eden, unlike Churchill, is unable to present failure as a noble crusade with the help of bold Churchillian prose...
...It is the handmaid of silent content, essential only to joy and to love...
...SIDNEY LENS recently made an extensive journey through Africa...
...Western diplomats must often hope that Moscow finds relations with Peking, Warsaw, and Prague as energy-consuming...
...Anglo-American relations since 1945 have at times involved as many difficulties as the relations of either nation with Moscow...
...American policy on these crucial occasions is charged with being inconsistent—acceptance of a joint position on one day and of taking a contradictory stand the next day without informing allies...
...Man is still the imperfect being he was in the past, but science has provided him with a weapon perfect enough to make man extinct...
...All this-was undoubtedly sensible advice at some time in the past...
...MELVIN J. FRIEDMAN teaches modern literature at the University of Wisconsin...
...Eden believed that war was necessary "to bring Nasser to his senses...
...The Suez crisis evoked a different reaction from British Conservatives...
...These men are united in their rejection of the optimistic view of man of the Enlightenment and accept him and his society as always falling far short of perfection...
...He is less than frank about what followed...
...In the Indochina conflict Eden complains that Dulles was threatening to intervene with air and naval support for the French, and possibly with troop support as well...
Vol. 24 • June 1960 • No. 6
