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Selected titles and authors on front cover underlined in pencil, including: “The Lawyer’s Path to Peace, Dean Acheson” and “Carroll Kilpatrick”. P. 341 [Dean Acheson’s, The Lawyer’s Path to Peace] earmarked and text highlighted in pencil: “Australia tried a High Court of Justice for labor disputes and gave up the effort.” P. 345 earmarked, highlighted and text underlined in pencil: “It undertook to suppress the rebellion by an embargo of trade with Rhodesia, in which other states joined. When this showed signs of breaking down, the United Kingdom went to the United Nations for approval in using force to bolster the blockade. Approval was given on the ground that Rhodesia’s conduct constituted a threat to peace.”; and on p. 346 “While one must recognise fully the dimensions of the problem which these racial laws present and the indignation and bitterness they cause in other African countries and elsewhere, the use of force still seems less likely to produce to produce a solution than a disaster.”; and p. 348 concluding line: “In a pinch there is nothing better than a skillful navigator, a steady crew, and a stout hull. Additionally p. 482 earmarked [beginning of article “Gauging a President” by Carroll Kilpatrick]”; p. 484 passages highlighted: “Truman did not judge well nor did he assume the responsibility that was his to make certain that they carried out the policies enunciated.” and: “Nevertheless, it is true, as Phillips says, that Truman was “a creative and aggressive President,” one who, despite his foibles, enhanced the office of President. While his domestic achievements were modest, his domestic achievements were modest, his achievements in foreign affairs were, as Phillips says, “monumental.” The “average man” from Independence, Missouri, will long be remembered, not for the petty things, but for the big things that in a period of great danger helped unite and save the free world – the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Berlin airlift, the defense of Korea, the assertion in the end of civilian over military control, support of the United Nations, aid to Communist Yugoslavia (which hastened evolutionary changes throughout Central Europe), and the beginning of an attempt to bring underdeveloped countries into the modern world.”