Books in Brief: South Africa and the World

South Africa and the World, by Amry Vandenbosch (University of Kentucky Press, 303 pp., $8.50). This survey of the foreign relations of South Africa is engrossing up to the UN era. The study of Jan Smuts, covering his large role in World War I and the League of Nations, as well as his battles with Louis Botha and General Hertzog, is detailed and good. Mr. Vandenbosch’s solemn and equally detailed consideration of the UN mouthings in relation to South Africa is, however, boring and pointless, since he is perforce examining a travesty of international relations.

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South Africa and the World, by Amry Vandenbosch (University of Kentucky Press, 303 pp., $8.50). This survey of the foreign relations of South Africa is engrossing up to the UN era. The study of Jan Smuts, covering his large role in World War I and the League of Nations, as well as his battles with Louis Botha and General Hertzog, is detailed and good. Mr. Vandenbosch’s solemn and equally detailed consideration of the UN mouthings in relation to South Africa is, however, boring and pointless, since he is perforce examining a travesty of international relations.