JASTROW, MORRIS, jr. Eastern question and its solution. *$1.50 (6c) Lippincott 327
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The author holds that the problems of the Near East will continue to be a menace to the peace of the world until they are properly settled; that they cannot be properly settled without the cooperation of America, that America can only help by avoiding two contingencies—political complications and the dispatching of a large army across the sea—that mandatories involve both these contingencies and that the only satisfactory solution lies in the creation of international commissions. The last chapter is devoted entirely to a discussion of this solution. Contents: The failure of European diplomacy in the Near East; The present situation; Mandates not a solution of the eastern question; Internationalism as a solution of the eastern question; Insert map of Europe after the great war.
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