Two Views of the World Scene

Two Views of the World Scene

On Dealing with the Communist World
by George F. Kennan
Harper and Row, for the Council on Foreign Relations, 1964, $3.00

Winning Without War
by Amitai Etzioni
Doubleday, 1964, $4.95

With his customary precision, forcefulness, and expository elegance, George Kennan outlines here the elements of rational American foreign policy toward the Communist world. Not that there is much new in these pages; Kennan and others have argued along similar lines before; but in these days of Goldwater ascendancy it is nevertheless important that what he has to say be reiterated again and again.

In his first ch...