BOOK SHOP
IVE books are to be reviewed in the Book Shop Session of July 25. Three of them"The Splendour and the Havoc," by M. Callard, "Maybe I’m Dead," by Joe Klaas, and "The Hound of Earth," by Vance Bourjailywill be discussed by Margot Roth. Professor S. Musgrove is to talk about a new book on Johnson, "The Young Samuel Johnson," by James L. Clifford; and Richard Beachamp will review a South Island county history, "The Amuri," by W. J. Gardner.
affairs. Other "democracies" are drawn on for examples, and it is wisely pointed out that the basic techniqueg of conducting a foreign policy are not very different for governments of contrasting political complexions. Yet the core of the discussion centres round a specifically American problem. This is the discovery that foreign affairs are not marginal but vital, and
the necessity to be a world power, imposed relatively quickly on a community whose ideas and institutions and politicians were bred to deal with internal issues. Massive inexperience in handling foreigners is a recurrent problem in diplomacy. A good deal of unnecessary friction arose for Russia in the last 40 years, and» for revolutionary France, because of this factor; and it led Chamberlain into drastic mishandling of Hitler. On a quite different level the Americans are becoming used to a wholly new range of power and responsibility. Mr. Beloff sets out in short space, and with great learning and ample historical illustration, the
issues, the dangers and the _ possibilities. His overall tone is hopeful. American democracy, he postulates, has done a magnificent job on its internal problems. He believes that high-level study of foreign affairs in the United States will certainly result in Government agencies being adequately staffed with experts. He refuses to take seriously the danger that policy-formers
may shut their eyes to unpalatable information, and his last sentence boldly states that "we do not need to fear the search for historical truth."
F. L. W.
Wood
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 885, 20 July 1956, Page 12
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