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For serious students of foreign policy Professor Arnold Toynbee's Survey

of International Affairs, issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is in- dispensable. The volume for 1927 (H. Milford, 24s.), contains a valuable chapter on the Geneva Naval Conference which may be read with profit now that the subject is being reopened on different lines. Again, the careful account of the relations between Western Europe and Russia in 1927 is instructive in view of the proposed reversal of British policy towards Moscow. Professor Toynbee has evidently tried hard to be impartial, and both the pro-Soviet and the anti-Soviet parties may dislike his candour. He devotes a long section to China, and discusses Pan-Americanism and the Mexican question in considerable detail.

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