As a work of destructive criticism this book has great merits, "It doubtedly contains much truth but nothing ike the whole truth. It: more than doubtful what real support Britain could have had in its applica-on-of sanctions in the crises of the last six years. It ignores as. dis honest the standpoint of the other Jschool of thought which advocates the facing of realities and doubts the feMfcacy of a collective system based Jon, universal application when major powers like the US.A., Germany and [Japan are outside its orbit.
Aiter reading the book one wonders where Britain and the Empire would have stood to-day with regard to the road to war if it had irretrievably committed itself to the Covenant of the League and the con-Sequence of its obligations—1
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