There are few people writing today who can cram more sound statemanship into brief compass than Chester Bowles. Herein he explores the steps by which we have lost leadership at a critical time in exchange for a narrow military viewpoint. He feels we must strengthen the rising forces in rural Asia, Africa, Latin America; must take a positive position in relation to colonialism. Most illuminating is his analysis of what is happening in Africa, the country he knows at first hand.