HOW NOT TO PRESERVE THE PEACE
Hesseltine, William B.
How Not To Preserve The Peace WOODROW WILSON: The Unforgettable Figure Who Has Returned to Haunt Us, by Gerald W. Johnson with the Collaboration of the Editors of Look Magazine. Harpers. $2. THE...
...has Germany itself experienced the horrors of war like those of fire and sword until now...
...Shotwell, "has brought the fear of war into the daily lives of those nations which have resorted to it most as the instrument of their policy...
...The volume is permeated with the propaganda dogmas of the United Nations—which the author piously refers to as the "peace-loving nations"—and is clumsy with the legalistic jargon of the international lawyer...
...Here then is the instrument ready at hand for the enforcement of peace in true police technique...
...In the end, he predicts and proposes a "United Nations of the World" in the form of the League of Nations...
...TAMES T. SHOTWELL'S offering is a curious ming-J ling of truths and dangerous half-truths...
...Small wonder it is that, in the next pages, the author rejects Jesus' doctrine of "the supremacy of the moral law of love" as impractical, and denounces American Neutrality laws as "immoral...
...THE GREAT DECISION, by James T. Shotwell...
...They might, too, give attention to Andre Visson's book—a volume which is not recommended for those who worry before going to sleep...
...Reviewed by William B. Hesseltine IN Dumbarton Oaks the world-be architects of the future are shaping the world to come...
...Not since the Thirty Years War...
...Nevertheless, the author's frankness in discussing the clashing aims of the United Nations, and his half-hidden suspicions of high-sounding objectives, should indicate again that the problems of Europe and Asia are not to be resolved by a couple of quick conferences and a hastily drawn plan to preserve the peace...
...Macmillan...
...For, says he, "the aggressor must be restrained from his career of crime or there is no civilization left.'-' Only when peace is "buttressed and supported by police"—i.e., super-dooper-fortresses—can "the ultimate aim of Christian caching" be achieved...
...This can only be done by force, and the author proposes to place an air force at the disposal of the peace-loving Conference and Council...
...In addition to providing so securely for "security," Prof...
...The conferees in Georgetown might do well to study these pictures and be warned by the lesson they contain...
...Gerald Johnson's picture book presents the photographic career of Woodrow Wilson with saccharine captions of adulation...
...It is a book which should have been subtitled "The Mess We Got In...
...Primarily concerned with Wilson's adventures in foreign affairs, the volume devotes two-thirds of its space to the World War, the Paris Conference, and its aftermath...
...It is a journalistic survey, superficially describing partisan conflicts with hardly a glimpse at underlying economic maladjustments...
...Then, somewhat vaguely, the author proposes regional organizations, which, somehow, will be subordinate to the new League...
...In their minds there must be the memory of Woodrow Wilson, the facts of a world in turmoil, and the hope of a peace to be achieved...
...The major function of this revamped League will be the maintainence of peace—that is, the furtherance ofj the interests of the "peace loving nations...
...There will be a "Conference" comparable to the League "Assembly," and a Council which, once again, will represent the political interests of the victorious big powers...
...THE COMING STRUGGLE FOR PEACE, by Andre Visson...
...The alternative to peace and democracy is militarism—¦ and the men at Dumbarton Oaks might bear it in mind...
...The haunting fear of the fire bomb on the flimsy houses of Japan is the only terror that strikes home to that fanatic nation...
...Yet, despite the curious concepts of peace-by-policemen- in-bombers, Professor Shotwell concludes with the sound warning that "only through the organization of peace can our constitutional liberties be preserved...
...Three books of recent vintage illustrate their problem—and move a reader to hope that they open their sessions with prayer...
...Shotwell endorses the World Court and such functional organizations as the International Labor Office, the UNRRA, and the international bank...
...The airplane, says Prof...
...The Viking Press...
...It presents, country by country, a nightmarish panorama of political problems from Poland to Persia...
Vol. 8 • September 1944 • No. 36
