Max Savelle

FELIX GILBERT. To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy. Pp. vii, 173. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1961.

mature to &dquo;remain within the framework of the British empire,&dquo; for they showed themselves unable to accept necessary responsibilities and obligations as empire members. And they were no better later, after independence. On the whole, this book is scholarly and interesting, though the author sometimes clogs the narrative, in the current style, with disputes with other authors, not always named, but recognizable. And he has occasionally been led astray by leaning on secondaries for points that turned out to be in error. In one place he called the Secretary of State the &dquo;regular&dquo; channel of correspondence with the colonies at the time of Grenville, yet orders in council of 1752 and 1761 state that it &dquo;be confined to and pass through but One Channel,&dquo; the lords of trade &dquo;only,&dquo; though an emergency matter of importance could be routed to the king through the secretary. Another error is the reversing of the captions on his two maps of the Indian reservation’s the board of trade’s and Fort Stanwix’s boundary lines. Minor errors

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Dr. Malagon and I have put our heads together and have tried to bring some system out of the discussions of this Conference. Our summary is based not only upon the papers that were presented here but also upon the critiques and comments that were sent in by mail. It is also based upon conversations and informal suggestions made outside of the room or away from the table; so if you find something here that you had not heard about, you must just attribute it to one of these extraneous sources.

Summary of Conference on Religion

terms of what is presently being done and what can be expected. Mr. Williams’ best efforts, however, are in the area of economic problems. Some of the inequities pointed out in news-transmission charges, for which there appear to be no sensible reasons, are little short of startling. The author not only shows how some of these discrepancies affect the news adversely but how improvements may be made on an economical basis.