Cecil V. Crabb

Discussions and Reviews : The South and American foreign policy: a review: Charles O. Lerche, Jr., The Uncertain South: Its Changing Patterns of Politics in Foreign Policy Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964. Pp. 324.

recent scholarly studies dealing with the nature, manifestations, and importance of regional viewpoints and pressures upon national policy. Two recent volumes focusing upon Southern attitudes toward foreign affairs attempt to fill this void, with respect, at any rate, to international viewpoints in what may be the most distinctive &dquo;region&dquo; in American society. In many respects very different, these studies provide the student of American foreign policy with a wealth of new material and with a number of intriguing hypotheses and tentative conclusions requiring further testing before they can be accepted as reliable predictive indicators of Southern thinking in foreign af-