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A New Foreign Policy for the United States By Hans J. Morgenthau Praeger, $6.95 (Paper, $2.75)

Of this new book by Professor Hans Morgenthau, as of many of these conglomerates stitched together from used articles, lectures and conference papers, it must be said that the whole is a lot less than some of the parts. Several of the parts, happily, are quite good. The analytic separation of “six types of foreign aid,” for example, is sensible and might even be useful. (Though Prof. Morgenthau’s obsessive habit of starting every topic with a dictum that there are six policies or three conclusions or five consequences or seven principles gets terribly boring. It is doubtless carried over from the classroom, where it is a routine device to keep students awake and at their note-taking. The numbering confers a pseudo-scientific aura, like the Weather Bureau’s new-style “70 percent probability of precipitation.”)

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A New Foreign Policy for the United States By Hans J. Morgenthau Praeger, $6.95 (Paper, $2.75)

Of this new book by Professor Hans Morgenthau, as of many of these conglomerates stitched together from used articles, lectures and conference papers, it must be said that the whole is a lot less than some of the parts. Several of the parts, happily, are quite good. The analytic separation of “six types of foreign aid,” for example, is sensible and might even be useful. (Though Prof. Morgenthau’s obsessive habit of starting every topic with a dictum that there are six policies or three conclusions or five consequences or seven principles gets terribly boring. It is doubtless carried over from the classroom, where it is a routine device to keep students awake and at their note-taking. The numbering confers a pseudo-scientific aura, like the Weather Bureau’s new-style “70 percent probability of precipitation.”)