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...Theodore Ropp War or Peace . By Dulles John Foster . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1950 . Pp. vi , 274 . Cloth $2.50 ; paper $1.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 124 The South Atlantic Quarterly historian sees three main possibilities...

...Alexander DeConde John Foster Dulles: A Biography . By Beal John Robinson . New York : Harper & Brothers , 1957 . Pp. xviii , 331 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 517 pipelines were in the hands of Standard Oil interests; furthermore...

... enterprise. An invaluable sup­ plement to the first volume of the Hidy history of Standard Oil, The De­ velopment of American Petroleum Pipelines describes the evolution of pub­ lic policy in the direction of closer regulation of a highly unstable com­ petitive enterprise. Robert s. smith John Foster Dulles...

... . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 518 The South Atlantic Quarterly calculated in their effect by a man who is a connoisseur of the importance of change in human affairs. Those who opposed Dulles or differed with him, the book implies, did not have the deep understanding of foreign policy...

... people unfortunately do, that history somehow will make the decisions and relieve us of that responsibility. It is, indeed, a heavy responsibility, but it is doubtful that we can escape it by retreating to the ivory tower of historical detachment. John H. Hallowell. War or Peace. By John Foster Dulles...

... into a policy position which he had avoided in 1947. America had become the defender not only of Europe but of Asia as well. Whatever the speech writers wrote in the election of 1952 not­ withstanding, the foreign policy of Eisenhower and Dulles not only followed but extended the lines laid down by Truman...

..., the president had liberal detractors. One of the most scathing attacks came from Hans J. Morgenthau, who as­ serted that Eisenhower s approach to international problems was in­ formed by [a] philosophy of abstention, conciliation, and pacifica­ tion. The Eisenhower-Dulles policies, he wrote, amounted to little...

... preachments of John Foster Dulles. Mr. Dulles, driven by a messianic single-mindedness, was addicted to the course of moral leadership and firmly dedicated to the idea that a policy based upon the cause of peace, justice, and human liberty had a better chance of international success than a policy of purely...

... Dulles and President Dwight Eisenhower. In his opinion, Dulles was an extraordinarily confused man who sought military pacts and increased armaments as the surest road to peace and security. 17 In May 1956, Fulbright harbored serious doubts about the wisdom of the administra­ tion s military-laden...

... into a fish-pond. In his Richmond tri-weekly Examiner what a shaking-up he gave to their dullness and dignity! When he wrote of the opposition he dipped his pen in aqua fortis. He could not always resist the temptation to put into the pillory a fellow-partisan who seemed disposed to make himself ridiculous...

... alert­ ness on the part of the reader in guarding against a writer s bias. DUKE UNIVERSITY RICHARD L. WATSON, JR. Trade Union Leadership: Based, on a Study of Arthur Deakin. By V. L. Allen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947. Pp. xiii, 336. $6.00. This is a dull book. Perhaps any attempt...

... bias. DUKE UNIVERSITY RICHARD L. WATSON, JR. Trade Union Leadership: Based, on a Study of Arthur Deakin. By V. L. Allen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947. Pp. xiii, 336. $6.00. This is a dull book. Perhaps any attempt to describe and analyze the power of a trade union leader would risk...

... detest­ able. The Reverend Robert Potter, having read Hawkins Life ofJohnson, declared him a dull, fastidious fellow. And various reputable persons before and since have asserted that he was ignorant, rough-hewn, mean, penurious, sanctimonious, pom­ pous, arrogant, haughty, conceited, priggish...

... in peace or retire into dull obscurity. Whether or not this longing for dull obscurity was sincere (and those familiar with the Boswell of the journals will have their doubts), it was destined to be spectacularly frustrated. The publication in May 1791 of The Life ofJohnson not only established...

... uninterested in the minutiae of Yeats sources should skip the research which slows up the narrative; and perhaps especial­ ly Chapter III, in which the projected Irish rituals are . . . dull. The projected Irish rituals are neither more nor less dull than much of the rest of the book. The main fault does...

...-zealous counters of statistics, too many who are suffering from an exces­ sive pre-occupation with little things, who here, as in any other sort of endeavor, would never rise above commonplace dullness, 4 348 The South Atlantic Quarterly. and who thereby bring condemnation upon the whole body...

... to come. But this need not rule out a policy of exploiting a Chinese defection in the future. Testifying before Con­ gress on the Japanese Peace Treaty before he became Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles said, We should assume the imperma­ nence, not the permanence of the present Moscow-oriented rule...

...-Soviet alliance at its face value for some time to come. But this need not rule out a policy of exploiting a Chinese defection in the future. Testifying before Con­ gress on the Japanese Peace Treaty before he became Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles said, We should assume the imperma­ nence...

... brilliant teachers deserving the satire of Swift} a teacher, it is said, must not rise above the level of his pupils, or they will not understand him; therefore a teacher must be found as dull as the dull little boy. Now all this is most generous toward the dull little boy; but too often he...

... lutely turning his back upon the biological aspects of dull mortality, he invites her to unite herself with the imperishable . . . me, but in his anticipation of this excursion into love s more rarefied atmos­ phere there is a delight so keen that it borders upon, perhaps blends with, physical...