Based upon several months of observation in China, Japan, and neighboring regions, and in Soviet Russia, this book, according to Lewis Gannett, in the New York Herald-Tribune “has new things to say. . . . None of the recent flood of books on China casts such revealing sidelights upon the immense revolution in process in that continent-country.” Although Professor Holcombe cannot always reveal the sources upon which his information and opinions are based, he has presented a reliable, up-to-date, impartial view of one of the greatest political movements of our generation, a book of unquestioned value to all readers interested either in the Far East or in the problems of modern world politics.

One of America's most distinguished political scientists presents a collection of articles, papers, and lectures on the subject of world peace. The book is divided into five parts: prologue; three major sections (each with an introductory essay) entitled “American Government and World Order,” “Organizing Peace within a Federal Union,” and “Organizing International Peace”; and an epilogue. The United Nations is thoroughly examined: its structure, achievements, present shortcomings, and potentialities. Holcombe concludes that the U.N. could—with certain changes, which he specifies—become the body of organized world government needed to end the cold war and maintain the peace.