Marshall Plan Days by Charles P. KindlebergerReview by: William Diebold Jr.Foreign Affairs, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Winter, 1987), p. 434Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20043399 .

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434 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

original work since it is only the first of four volumes in a series (two of them by another author).

FACING THE FUTURE: GERMANY BREAKING NEW GROUND. By Lothar Sp?th. Berlin and New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986, 196 pp.

In a manner unusual for officeholders, the minister-president of the West German state of Baden-W?rttemberg delves deeply into the economic,

social and political implications of creating an "information society." He sees Germany as lagging and argues in some detail for the kinds of changes he thinks necessary. They touch on almost everything, including labor

relations, macroeconomic policies, education and infrastructure. Though a

strong advocate of private enterprise, he sees a crucial and complex f>lace for governments in these processes, which involve changes in values as well as structures.

PERSPECTIVES ON A U.S.-CANADIAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT. Edited by Robert M. Stern, Philip H. Trezise and John Whalley. Washing ton: Brookings, 1987, 266 pp. $32.95 (paper, $12.95).

These papers, and brief comments on them, from a conference sponsored by the University of Michigan and the University of Western Ontario do a

very good job of discussing many possible aspects of a free trade area between the United States and Canada. They give a good bit of attention to the effects on third countries and the international trading system as

well.

FIXING FARM TRADE: POLICY OPTIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES. By Robert L. Paarlberg. Cambridge: Ballinger, 1987, 159 pp. $16.95. A Council on Foreign Relations Book.

International trade negotiations, in GATT and elsewhere, could do much to improve world agriculture, but one cannot feel very sure that will

happen. The possibilities and the limits are well laid out in this clear and authoritative book. Using the best work in agricultural economics and a realistic political analysis, the author shows how present costs and distortions have to be dealt with by national policies, not least those of the United States.

MARSHALL PLAN DAYS. By Charles P. Kindleberger. Boston: Allen Se

Unwin, 1987, 273 pp. $34.95. Of the 14 papers written over 40 years, only a few date from the time

Professor Kindleberger worked on the Marshall Plan for the State Depart ment, but this valuable collection is fortified by recollections, research and some interesting letters the author wrote from Europe in the 1940s.

Naturally one becomes rather familiar with some of the author's ideas and turns of phrase, but the lively introductory notes to each paper not only

provide a setting but relate it to others. There are sharp rebuttals of some

latter-day criticism of the Marshall Plan, but Kindleberger is not one to

indulge in nostalgia or claim that everything was done in the best of all

possible ways.

ALLY VERSUS ALLY: AMERICA, EUROPE, AND THE SIBERIAN PIPELINE CRISIS. By Antony J. Blinken. New York: Praeger, 1987, 204

pp. $37.95 (paper, $12.95). This lively account of the 1982 dispute between the United States and

several of its European allies about support for the building of the Soviet

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