Suggestions

DR. HAROLD J. TOBIN '17, of the Political Science Department at Dartmouth, who has spent a large part of the last seven years working in Geneva, and who is now giving courses in international affairs, suggests the following books and pamphlets dealing with current international problems.

Mr. Tobin writes: "Current changes in international politics speedily destroy the timeliness of books on problems such as Ethiopia or the naval conference. Two recent pamphlets give the current picture of Italy's attempt at Africa expansion. One, Abyssinia and Italy prepared by the British Royal Institute of International Affairs (New York, Oxford Press), carries the question to the point where England got behind the League of Nations. The second, The League andthe Italo-Ethiopian Crisis (New York, Foreign Policy Association), covers the application of sanctions. Walter Millis's pamphlet, The Future of SeaPower in the Pacific (New York, World Peace Foundation), gives an excellent background for the naval questions between the Great Powers.

"The larger question of the maintenance of peace is broadly yet simply treated by Norman Angell in his Peaceand the Plain Man (Harpers' 1935). Here one finds discussion of the significance of such phrases as 'You can't change human nature,' 'Armament makers cause war,' and 'The league is a talking shop,' with simple and clear explanation of the average citizen's unwitting part in maintaining the war system.

"A brief pocket-size book on what has happened to the peace treaty with Germany is The Treaty of Versaillesand After (Oxford University Press, 1935), which is a symposium by experts, French, British, German, Italian, and American, explaining dispassionately the national viewpoints on the results of the 1919 peace settlement."

Any of these pamphlets or books can be obtained at, or by, any bookstore.