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DESIGN FOR POWER-Frederick L Schuman-Knopf...
This book confirms reports that Clarence Streit (Union Now with Britain) has converted Frederick L. Schuman (Night Over Europe). Since some 5,000 readers faithfully buy all Professor Schuman's books on current history, his conversion must be taken as something of an event. It may also be taken as a timely warning of what happens when an idea like Union Now falls among doctrinaires...
...first 289 pages of Design for Power recapitulate the recent history of Japan, the U.S., five European countries. Says Professor Schuman on page 290: "The gentle reader who has come thus far in these ungentle pages will doubtless by now be weary and not a little puzzled. A story of grief and pain seven times told is tiresome and baffling. No sane man or woman relishes any such morbid preoccupation with crime and folly...
Whether they relish it or not. Author Schuman sees that they get it, for he belongs to the totalitarian school of liberals and this is his way of saying: Boo! He wants his readers to understand that the history of Europe's last decade is going to be the history of the human race for an unforeseeable future-unless they do something drastic about it soon...
...Schuman ascribes part of the present chaos to the paradox that the world is an economic unit but a political jigsaw puzzle. "Anarchy in world politics," he says, "is incompatible with unity and order in world business and world civilization. One or the other must go." He also sees an even more important fact-that "the central issue of World War II is not the issue of whether the world of the 20th Century shall achieve political unity. It is the issue of who will build that unity, on what foundations and for what purposes...