Les cinq grandes religions du monde . By Helmut von Glasenapp. Translated from the German by Pierre Jundt. Paris: Payot, 1954. 558. 1,700 francs.

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honestly against our own standards of right and wrong. Comments Mr. Kuhn: "If there had been a United Nations in Perry's day—if there had been a Charter pledging nations not to use or threaten force—the Japan Expedition would have been regarded as a threat to world peace. Japan or some other nation could have brought the threat before the Security Council, and the United States would have been in the wrong. There cannot be the slightest doubt about it." (p. 158) Though the author concludes that "if any nation was to open Japan by the threat of force, probably it was fortunate that the United States did it" (p. 160), his book remains a model of objectivity for such popular presentation.