BOOK REVIEW.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14191, 28 April 1919, Page 4

BOOK REVIEW.

‘THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM.”

Wo arc indebted to Messrs. Gordon and Gotch, Ltd., for a copy of “The Eight for Freedom.” This book, which has been edited by Mr G. L. i Scansie, deals lucidly and comprehensively with Ju go-Slavs and their fight for freedom. An attempt has been I made to ghe a dispassionate narrative of the events which immediately preceded the formation of the new* State of the Jugo or Southern Slavs, composed of Serbs and Montenegrins, the Croats and Slovenes, who have been dominated by Austria-Hungary. Inspired by tho principles enunciated by President Wilson on the rights of small nations to self-determination, they have placed their claim before the Peace Conference. The book deals with the wdiolc situation, and will give to people in this remote corner of the earth a better grasp of the complexity of the questions which have assumed such vital importance at the Peace Congress. At the present moment the amicable settlement of the Adriatic problem has assumed primary importance, and the latest cab’es convoy tho impression that it is the keynote to the present situation, and* a rupture would sound the death knell of the League of Nations. The book also deals with tho position of the Jngo-Slavs in New Zealand, giving an impartial and unprejudiced summing up of the circumstances relating thereto. We strongly recommend this book to all who take an intelligent interest in those vital questions of the hour, and who would make themselves conversant with the true position.