SOURCE: Review of War or Peace, in The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 1, January, 1951, pp. 124-26.

In the following review, Rapp argues that Dulles's general thoughts on sustaining world peace and containing communist expansion as outlined in War or Peace are "more important than his specific recommendations."

Mr. John Foster Dulles believes that a Third World War, though probable, is not inevitable and that an intelligent American foreign policy still has at least a good chance of keeping the peace. As in Britain, our foreign policy is bipartisan, not because of any love lost among the politicians, but because of what Stalin would call the "logic of facts," the desperateness left by the two most destructive wars in modern history. "There is no simple formula for peace, and no single act that will assure peace," while those who believe in violent methods of political change can often catch...