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The Political Economy of American Foreign Policy, by W. Y. Elliot, Chairman et al. Report of Study Group Sponsored by Woodrow Wilson Foundation and The National Planning Association. 397 pp. New York: Henry Holt & Company. $6.00

Although The Political Economy is a collective work, it successfully avoids the stylistic pitfalls of compendiums, and reads like a unified book not a pastiche of repetitious and otherwise unsynchronized papers. Moreover, it is readily comprehensible by the layman, and issoatno serious sacrifice of scientific rigor. Finally, it is earnest and objective in spirit, and clearly the work of men deeply devoted to the highest interests of the United States. Most of the unfavorable criticisms that occur to me relate, therefore, to questions of emphasis.

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The Political Economy of American Foreign Policy, by W. Y. Elliot, Chairman et al. Report of Study Group Sponsored by Woodrow Wilson Foundation and The National Planning Association. 397 pp. New York: Henry Holt & Company. $6.00

Although The Political Economy is a collective work, it successfully avoids the stylistic pitfalls of compendiums, and reads like a unified book not a pastiche of repetitious and otherwise unsynchronized papers. Moreover, it is readily comprehensible by the layman, and issoatno serious sacrifice of scientific rigor. Finally, it is earnest and objective in spirit, and clearly the work of men deeply devoted to the highest interests of the United States. Most of the unfavorable criticisms that occur to me relate, therefore, to questions of emphasis.