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Securing the blessings of liberty: the constitutional system
In: Scott, Foresman American Government series
The UN Secretary-General: His role in world politics
In: Report of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace 14
Dependent areas in the post-war world
In: America looks ahead 4
Edwin Ginn's Commitment to World Government
In: International organization, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 419-429
ISSN: 1531-5088
Edwin Ginn's vision of world peace, as recorded in his last will and testament, involved him in a commitment to world government. World government, however, is an objective which seems to many mid-twentieth century observers of international politics excessively visionary. The nineteenth-century dream of a parliament of man, a federation of the world, fills a bright page in Victorian poetry. But much contemporary prose is written by men whose vision is obscured by space rockets, intercontinental ballistic missiles, atomic bombs, and other lethal weapons of ultramodern warfare. They see only a world of heavily armed, self-styled sovereign states bent on the protection of alleged vital interests and on the defense of so-called national honor with little patience for the restraints of any higher law designed to prevent them from making war upon one another.
Edwin Ginn's Vision of World Peace
In: International organization, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 1-19
ISSN: 1531-5088
Edwin Ginn, successful publisher of educational books, philanthropist, and founder of the World Peace Foundation, gave much thought to the problem of world peace and believed that he knew the answer. He was convinced that world peace, as he understood it, was highly desirable, was attainable, and was likely to be achieved in the not too distant future. To this achievement he devoted a third of the wealth accumulated during a lifetime of demonstrated business capacity and acumen. So confident was he of the correctness of his analysis of the peace problem that he stipulated in his will the use to be made, after world peace was attained, of the fund which he provided for the support of his World Peace Foundation. His trustees were charged with the duty of recognizing the attainment of peace and then transferring the fund to the support of his other favorite philanthropy, the Charlesbank Homes, which he expected to flourish in a peaceful world.
MYRES S. MCDOUGAL and FLORENTINO P. FELICIANO. Law and Minimum World Public Order: The Legal Regulation of International Coercion. Pp. xxvi, 872. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1961. $12.50
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 342, Heft 1, S. 166-166
ISSN: 1552-3349
SYDNEY D. BAILEY. The General Assem bly of the United Nations: A Study of Procedure and Practice. Pp. xx, 337. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1960. $5.00
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 335, Heft 1, S. 223-224
ISSN: 1552-3349
DAVID CUSHMAN COYLE. Ordeal of the Presidency. Pp. v, 408. Washington, D. C.: Public Affairs Press, 1960. $6.00
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 330, Heft 1, S. 179-179
ISSN: 1552-3349
JAMES BURNHAM. Congress and the American Tradition. Pp. x, 363. Chi cago : Henry Regnery Company, 1959. $6.50
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 325, Heft 1, S. 162-163
ISSN: 1552-3349
A Study of History. Vols. VII–X. By Arnold J. Toynbee. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1954. Pp. xxx, 772, ix, 732, viii, 759, vi, 422. $35.00.)
In: American political science review, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 1151-1154
ISSN: 1537-5943