19 FEBRUARY 1954, Page 28

PROFESSOR McNEm., of the University of Chicago has amply justified

Chatham House in choosing him to write what is obviously the key volume of the wartime series of their Survey. Even those familiar with the printed sources for the period on which Professor McNeill has had perforce to rely will find in his cool and lucid setting out of the problems of inter-allied co-operation at their various stages much food for reflection, while for reference purposes the book will be invaldable. Perhaps its most interesting and important aspect is Professor McNeill's consideration of the differences in the internal organisation and outlook of the government departments and armed services of this country and the United States respectively, and of the effect of these differences upon their working together.

M. IS,