U.S. WAR AIMS.

Lippman, Walter

Published by Boston. July 1944. An Atlanic Montly Press Book / Little Brown & Co.

small blue cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges a bit soiled. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. minor rubbing, tiny tears, old store sticker, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition so stated. first printing. deckled foredge (looks "hand cut"). viii+235p. 12 appendices. world history. politics. diplomacy. world war i. world war ii. ~The United States is now at the center of the Western World. If we accept the responsibilities which result from this fact, we with our Allies can secure a long peace. Otherwise, Western civilization wil become a disorganized fringe around the Soviet Union and the rising peoples of Asia. ~This is the logical, farsighted development of U. S. FOREIGN POLICY: Shield of the Republic. In this new book Mr. Lippmann brings you down to earth to examine the unfinished structure of the new peace which we can already discern through the smoke of this years battle. He shows how danger to our vital interests has caused two wars with Germany and our present struggle with Japan. He makes us feel the dynamic purpose which drives the American nation on; he makes us realize why for decades we have been the champion of an independent China, and why, in the end, we shall always oppose the threat of any conquering empire which encroaches on the shores of the Atlantic and Pacific. Mr. Lippmann argues that until we have fixed our relations with our Allies we cannot attempt any final settlement of defeated Germany and defeated Japan. With clarity and forethought he sizes up those two great aggregations of power which are now emerging: the Atlantic Community, of which we are the geographic center; and the Russian Orbit, the great land mass of Eastern Europe. He limits our future relations with Canada, Britain, and France, and says that a war within this community is out of the question. He examines the sovereignty of the smaller nations within these big orbits. He discusses the possibilities of the emerging China, and of the new constellation which may arise in Asia. He argues that Russia can be as invulnerable in her land mass as we can be in our Atlantic Community, and that if we act accordingly a war between the two is as unnatural as a battle between a whale and an elephant. Once he has defined and hammered home our six war aims, Mr. Lippmann goes on to describe the conditions under which peace ~ not a long armistice ~ can be maintained. In a hardheaded chapter he deals with the problem of Soviet~American relations. He discloses the radical ditference between the Wilsonian peace of 1919 and the peace which can now be made. Finally, he shows how this peace can be the foundation of a universal society. ~Walter Lippmann is one of the few living Americans who took part in the formulation of the war aims in the First World War. Early in the war he served as an assistant to Newton D. Baker, the Secretary of War. Then in September 1917 he joined Colonel House, who, at the direction of President Wilson, was organizing a staff of experts, known as The Inquiry, to prepare for the peace settlement. As secretary of this organization, Mr. Lippmann collaborated in formulating the Fourteen Points. In Ocrober 1918, then a captain in the military intelligence at General Pershing' s headquarters, he was summoned back to Paris by Colonel House. With the late Frank L. Cobb, he wrote the official interpretation of the Fourteen Points, used by Colonel House in the pre~armistice negotiations. Thereafter he was attached to the American Comrnission to Negotiate Peace. [10919]. Seller Inventory # 1151601

Bibliographic Details

Title: U.S. WAR AIMS.
Publisher: Boston. July 1944. An Atlanic Montly Press Book / Little Brown & Co.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition