WPO volume 2 issue 3 Cover and Front matter WORLD POLITICS A Quarterly Journal of International Relations Volume II, Number 3 April 1950 Price $5.00 per year h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 43 88 71 00 00 03 32 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 01 :5 9: 19 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887100000332 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms E D I T O R I A L BOARD WILLIAM T. R. FOX, Managing Editor BERNARD BRODIE PERCY E. CORBETT FREDERICK S. D U N N WILLIAM W. KAUFMANN, Assistant Managing Editor ADVISORY EDITORS EDWIN D. DICKINSON HAROLD D. LASSWELL EDWARD MEAD EARLE EDWARD S. MASON RUPERT EMERSON LEO PASVOLSKY P H I L I P C. JESSUP DAVID N. ROWE JOSEPH E. JOHNSON HAROLD SPROUT STEPHEN B. JONES JACOB VINER GRAYSON L. K I R K D E R W E N T WHITTLESEY KLAUS KNORR ARNOLD WOLFERS QUINCY W R I G H T Statements of fact and opinion appearing in WORLD POLITICS are made on the responsibility of the authors alone, and do not imply the endorsement of the Editorial Board, the Advisory Editors, or the Yale Institute of International Studies. Copyright 1950 by World Politics WORLD POLITICS. Published quarterly by the Yale Institute of International Studies. April 1950. Vol. II, No. 3. Publication offices at 187 College Street, Burlington, Vermont. Editorial and Executive Offices, 202 Hall of Graduate Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Burlington, Vermont, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscriptions $5.00 a year; postage prepaid to any address. VOLUME II, NUMBER 3 Printed in U.S.A. h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 43 88 71 00 00 03 32 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 01 :5 9: 19 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887100000332 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms WORLD POLITICS VOL. II • PUBLISHED IN APRIL 1950 • No. 3 Contents France in Defeat: Causes and Consequences Saul K. Padover 305 A Protest Against a Dilemma's Two Horns Reinhold Niebuhr 338 The Strategy of Communist Infiltration : Czechoslovakia, 1944-1948 Ivo Duchacek 345 i American Wartime Objectives in Latin America Edgar S. Furniss, Jr. 373 The Role of the United Nations in the Conduct of United States Foreign Policy Daniel S. Che ever 389 REVIEW ARTICLES The Problem of American Intervention, 1917: An Historical Retrospect Richard W. Leopold 404 Army and National Socialism 1933-1945: ; The Responsibility of the Generals Gordon A. Craig 426 i ^RESEARCH NOTES I Standardized Error and Japanese Character: A Note on Political Interpretation John F. Embree 439 he Contributors ii h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 43 88 71 00 00 03 32 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 01 :5 9: 19 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887100000332 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms The Contributors Saul K. Padover is Dean of the School of Politics of The New School for Social Research and was visiting professor last winter at the Univer- sity of Paris. He is the author of four books on Thomas Jefferson and five books on European politics and history. Reinhold Niebuhr is Professor of Applied Christianity at Union Theo- logical Seminary. His numerous publications include The Nature and Destiny of Man, Moral Man and Immoral Society, Christianity and Power Politics, and The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. Ivo Duchacek is visiting lecturer in political science at Yale University. In 1945 he was liaison officer between General Patton's army and the Czech Government, and from liberation in 194S until the coup in 1948 he was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Czechoslovak Parliament. Edgar S. Furniss, Jr. is a member of the Department of Politics at Princeton University/During 1944-46 he served in the Office of American Republic Affairs, Department of State. Daniel S. Cheever is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. He was formerly in the Division of International Security Affairs of the Department of State and was also a member of the Inter- national Secretariat at the San Francisco Conference. Richard W. Leopold is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University and specializes in American diplomacy. Author of Robert Dale Owen: A Biography, he is engaged on a major study of the United States as a world power. Gordon A. Craig is a member of the Department of History at Princeton University. He was collaborating editor and contributor to Makers of Mod- ern Strategy: Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler and is cur- rently engaged on a study to be entitled Militarism and Statecraft: The Politics of the Prussian Army since 1848. John F. Embree is Associate Professor of Sociology and director o\ graduate studies in the Southeast Asian field at Yale University. His writ- ings include Suye Mura, a Japanese Village and The Japanese Nation. h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 43 88 71 00 00 03 32 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 01 :5 9: 19 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887100000332 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms