The Quest for Peace Since the World War

By William E. Rappard

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IN the brilliant group of international bureaucrats whom the League of Nations attracted, the Swiss Professor Rappard was one of the most distinguished members. He served on several of the League commissions, notably the Mandates Commission, and directed the Graduate Institute of International studies in Geneva. His Quest for Peace is the record of these peace organizational years. The author is writing of a dream, too, and he will reawaken the faith in universal organization which is now behind the clouds. But for the most part the Swiss professor takes the reader in scholarly and leisurely fashion through the records. And how many of them there are! One could easily have dispensed with a few of them for the sake of more emphasis — for instance, upon what the author calls ‘the tragedy of Article 19,’ or the article of the League Covenant providing for the change of an international treaty which might have been outgrown. Article 19 was invoked by aggrieved members, but never acted upon. The League thus preserved a static world

— or sought to preserve it — and finally both collapsed when the demand for change became dynamic enough to go on the rampage.