WORKSHOPS FOR THE WORLD.

By Graham Beckel '36. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1954. 213 pp. $4.00.

An experienced teacher and lecturer on United Nations affairs, Mr. Graham Beckel has written in the volume under review a useful handbook on the Specialized Agencies. A separate chapter is devoted to each agency. Many chapters begin with a fascinating case study which serves to arouse the interest of the reader. Every chapter contains a quite detailed account of the agency under study - its origin, organization, functions and activities. Frequently quotations have been inserted from the charter of the agency. The last two chapters are devoted respectively to the United Nations Technical Assistance Expanded Program and to the relations between the government of the United States and the Specialized Agencies. At the end of the volume there are several appendices quoting pertinent parts of the United Nations Charter, listing the members and detailing the budgets of each agency. The volume is handsomely illustrated and contains an index. Mr. Beckel's scholarship seems meticulous. This reviewer could not discover even a single proof reading error.

The volume should prove especially valuable to secondary school classes in the social studies and to adult study groups on the United Nations. Mr. Beckel believes that world peace in the long run depends on the cultivation of neighborliness between the peoples of the world. He sees the Specialized Agencies as laboratories where peoples from various parts of the world can cooperate in helping each other to solve their mutual problems in such fields as health, agriculture, labor, and education. Mr. Beckel is not sentimental and does not minimize the difficulties. Nonetheless, the heroic self-sacrifice of the little army of devoted servants* of the agencies shines through the details of organization. Fittingly the volume is dedicated "to the personnel of the International Civil Service."