RECENT BOOKS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

INTERNATIONAL relations; BOOKS; HISTORY As the Story of Liberty (Book); MYTH of the Total State, The (Book); CROCE, Benedetto, 1866-1952

This article provides information on several books related to international relations. The book "History As the Story of Liberty," by Benedetto Croce. provides essays by one of the greatest of contemporary philosophers and historians in which the central theme is man's eternal struggle for freedom. Though Croce's thought is sometimes metaphysical and his language involved, his underlying thesis is clear enough and his expression of it in Fascist Italy is a tribute to his courage. The book "The Myth of the Total State," by Guenther Reimann is an attempt to demonstrate that the new Nazi elite cannot maintain totalitarian rule over Europe, that it must therefore aim at world conquest, but that in this attempt it will likewise fail. The book "The Assembly of the League of Nations," by Margaret E. Burton is a scholarly treatise on the organization and historical function of the Assembly. The book "Law Without Force," by Gerhart Niemeyer presents a treatise on the origins, development, political function and present parlous state of international law.