Laves, Walter H.C.

Thomson, Charles A.

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Naval War College ReviewVolume 16Number 4 December Article 91963Cultural Relations and U.S. Foreign PolicyCharles A. ThomsonWalter H.C. LavesFollow this and additional works at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-reviewThis Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons. It has been accepted forinclusion in Naval War College Review by an authorized editor of U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons. For more information, please contactrepository.inquiries@usnwc.edu.Recommended CitationThomson, Charles A. and Laves, Walter H.C. (1963) "Cultural Relations and U.S. Foreign Policy," Naval War College Review: Vol. 16 :No. 4 , Article 9.Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol16/iss4/9esoteric research of economics majors or graduate students, but for the easy comprehension of anyone motivated to read it, the book points up, among other things, problems of comparing standards of living between nations, where definition of terms is not consisoont, standard nor agreed upon. Eubank, Keith. Munich. Norman: UniV<,rsity of Oklahoma Press, 1963. 322p. In this recounting of the events leading to and resulting from the Munich Pact of September 1939, Keith Eubank has produced an extremely well-<letailod and documented chronicle of that fateful meeting. The greater portion of the book is virtua Uy an hour-by-hour review of every action of each of the principals in­volved. The detail is staggering, and goes to great lengths to relate the story of the agreement which has come to be universal­ly equated with appeasement and even cowardice. The author neither defends nor blames the leading actors in the drama­Chamberlain, Halifax, Bonnet and Daladier. Instead, ho meticu­lously identifies every facet of the problems faced by them in dealing with Hitler at a time when both Britain and France were neither morally nor physically prepared to go to war to defend distant Czechoslovakia, over a question about which they knew or cared little. Mr. Eubank's meticulous research takes the reader into countless conference and meeting rooms and allows him to witness the rantings of Hitler, the forbearance of the British, and the frustration of the Czechs. 'rhe results of the Munich Pact arc now history, but were accurately predicted by Emile Krofta, Czech �'oreign Minister, at the time of Munich, when he said, 'We are certainly not the last: after us, there are others who will be affected and who will suffer from those decisions.' Munich is surely an outstanding documentary showing the diplomatic maneuverings which resulted in the fateful de­cisions. It is an unbiased and objective encyclopedia of the failure of diplomacy without power. Thomson, Charles A. and Laves, Walter !LC. Cultural Relations and U.S. Poreign Policy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963. 227p. This book presents a precise and quite detailed resume of the cultural exchange activities in which the United States has participated during the past 25 years. It traces this country's efforts through private organizations, semi-official groups 1 and official government agencies. The term 'cultural' is used in its 40 1Thomson and Laves: Cultural Relations and U.S. Foreign PolicyPublished by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 19632Naval War College Review, Vol. 16 [1963], No. 4, Art. 9https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol16/iss4/9

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