Volume 4, Number 4 · March 25, 1965
The UN in Crisis
By Hans J. Morgenthau
In Pursuit of World Order
by Richard N. Gardner
Praeger, 263 pp., $4.95
The Quest for Peace
edited by Andrew W. Cordier, edited by Wilder Foote
Columbia, 390 pp., $7.95
These two books make melancholy reading. They appear at a moment when their object, the United Nations, is paralyzed by a crisis which threatens its very existence as an operating international organization; yet they are full of pride over past achievements and of hope for the future. Reading them with that crisis in mind, one feels somewhat like an onlooker at a birthday party, with everybody shouting 'many happy returns,' while the object of the celebration lingers between life and death. One cannot help asking oneself, will this birthday party end up as a wake?
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