SOURCE: Review of War or Peace, in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 4, 1950, pp. 592-54.

In the following review, Rauch calls War or Peace a "primer for Everyman" that asserts "the primacy of moral issues in international affairs," but nevertheless observes that the work occasionally fails to surmount Republican partisanism.

This book suggests comparisons with Wendell Willkie's famous One World. In both, Republican leaders better than any Democrats stated for the whole public the form and content of evolving United States foreign policy. But Willkie's book was a rapt vision of utopia; John Foster Dulles' book is a sober redemption of hope after five years of discouragement. The two books are signposts marking the distance we have traversed from the dream of One World right away to an awakening with attendant determination to prevent sad experience from reconciling us permanently to two worlds.

Wendell Willkie reported on his trip...