Guides to the U.N.
Bailey, Sydney D.
Guides to the U.N. U.N.: The First Fifteen Years, by Clark M. Eichelberger. Harper. 147 pp. $2.75. Shaping Our Times: What the United Nations Is and Does, by Harold Courlander. Oceana...
...Oceana Publications...
...242 pp...
...The U.N...
...The high hopes of the founding fathers may not yet have been fully realized, but we have traveled far in fifteen years...
...Reviewed by Sydney D. Bailey rpHE Soviet attacks on Dag Ham-marskjold have helped some people realize what a valuable institution the world has in the United Nations...
...The presence of the United Nations in situations of tension and disorder helps to restore or maintain calm while the fundamental causes of trouble can be dealt with...
...Clark M. Eichelberger writes as a veteran crusader for world organization who is distressed when the U.N...
...1.75 paperback, $3.50 cloth...
...Here are two books on the United Nations for the man-in-the-street, his wife, and his children...
...is ignored or abused...
...is indispensable today...
...Harold Courlander has had varied first-hand experience with the United Nations, and his approach is somewhat more detached than Eichelber-ger's...
...His treatment is fuller, and his book is of slightly better value...
...Both authors leave readers to draw their own conclusions...
...Americans who want to understand the problems of Chinese representation at the U.N.,, which will soon be an embarrassing issue for the United States, will find the facts set out in these books...
...Both authors deal fairly and clearly with important questions...
...It includes thirty illustrations, forty pages of useful appendices, and an index...
Vol. 25 • February 1961 • No. 2
