ASIA AND THE WEST
NORTH FROM MALAYA, by William O. Douglas; Victor Gollancz, English price 16/-. MEN AGAINST THE JUNGLE,» by Ritchie Calder; Allen and Unwin, English price 15/-. "HESE two books may well be read in sequence. Mr. Justice Douglas, of the Supreme Court of U.S.A., is now widely known for travel books that contain a good deal of political wisdom mixed in with the reports of an observant and-because of his nationality -rather privileged traveller. The present volume covers his journeys in Malaya, the Philippines, Vietnam, Burma, Formosa and Korea, and is therefore of immediate topical interest. There is much pungent criticism of the Western nations, but particularly of French policy in Vietnam, which he concludes is "feeding the flames of Communism." He sees. rather different problems in each of the areas visited, but his principal theme is that everywhere in Asia people are more against imperialistic capitalism than they are in favour of Kremlin Communism. The hope for a peaceful understanding with (continued on next page) ’
BOOKS (continued from previous page) Asians lies in giving assistance to develop the’ natural resources of these countries for the benefit of all the people. Ritchie Calder, Science Editor of the News Chronicle, is in his own sphere one of the most competent of British journalists. His book contains the observations of himself and two colleagues who were sent at the request of United Nations to report on the problems, programmes and progress of U.N. Technical Assistance and Specialist Agencies in the over-populated and under-de-_veloped countries of South and SouthEast Asia-Borneo, Java, Thailand, Burma, parts of India and Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Calder gives a graphic picture of the situation. He also gives the impression that much more can be done to save Asia from what it has to be saved from by the United Nations or by Britain and America alone, than can be done by U.S.S.R.; and that more can be done by large-hearted technical assistance than by political or military
machinery.
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 13
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334ASIA AND THE WEST New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 13
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