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The Peace
No More Versailles
\~IERICA AI\'D THE AXIS \V AR. By Denys Smith.
;'\ew York: The i\lac!\lillan Company, 1942.416 Pages;
Index; $3.00.
Re\'iewing our many mistakes and few victories in the
international scene between the two \Vorld \Vars, 1\lr.
Smith has written a well-documented summary and analysis
of America's efforts, internally and internationally, to
keep the world out of war, and failing that, to keep Amer-
ICa out of war.
\\'hen this war ends, America will have much to sav at
the peace table. The mistakes of Versailles must not be
made again; to avoid the mistakes of Versailles we must
know what happened there, and throughout the world
afterwards, as a result of that patchwork of a treaty.
?\Ir. Smith recommends for the future a world organization
of the type of the Pan-American Union, rather than of
lhe form of the old League of Nations, because Americans,
as well as others, are not yet ready to give up even the
appearance of sovereignty. Isolationism, he believes, is now
recognized by the American people as an unworkable politicalaim.
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United Nations
MAKE THIS THE LAST WAn. By Michael Straight.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. 410
Pages; Index; $3.00.
Michael Straight is young enough to be awaiting induction
as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Forces, and
Id enough to have been on the staff of the Adviser on
International Economics of the State Department, an as-
SIStanto the National Power Policy Committee, an econolllislof
the European Division of the State Department, and
III be an editor of the New Republic. His background, in
experience, travel, and education, is wide.
He has written a fiery blast at the conduct of the war,
pastand present, at the Army, Industry, and Government,
and at some of the United Nations, bolstered with selected
Slatisticsand facts, as well as quotations from a wide va-
Detyof sources. His main thought seems to be that the
United Nations is the germ of an idea, no matter how
poorlyit is being handled at present, for the future peace
the world.
His ideas are, of course, radical-how radical will be
decidedbv the reader and the reader's own ideas and backp1und.
To attempt to assess the value of those ideas, in
IIIything less than another book, would be futile.
Peace and Preparedness
M' Jr., and Charles T. Haven. New York: \Villiam
.....o_rrowand Company, 1942. 246 Pages; Illustrated;
~.)o.
~R PERi\IANENT VICTORY. By 1\lelvin 1\1. John-
Many an army officer and many a believer in pr~paredhas
thought the things that Johnson and Haven,
IlILo rs of Automatic Arms, have put down on paper in this
fIDtocative book. Going into every major war relatively
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