Reviews

LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND THE WORLD. Philip Geyelin. Frederick A. Praeger, U.SA., 1966. Pp. viii + 309. $5.95 (U.S.).

AN EXPLANATION OF DE GAULLE, Robert Aron. Harper & Row, New York, 1966. Pp. xiv + 210. $4.95 (U.S.).

DE GAULLE AND THE WORLD. THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE FIFTH FRENCH REPUBLIC. W. W. Kulski. Syracuse University Press, 1966. Pp. xvi + 428. $8.50 (U.S.).

MODERN CAPITALISM. THE CHANGING BALANCE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE POWER. Andrew Shonfield. London, Oxford University Press, for the Royal Institute of International Affair?, 1965. Pp. xvi + 456. $8.33 (Aust).

THE DISINTEGRATING MONOLITH. PLURALIST TRENDS IN THE COMMUNIST WORLD. /. D. B. Miller and T. E. Bigby (eds.). Canberra, Australian National University, 1965. Pp. xiii + 264. $6.00 (Aust).

AUSTRALIA AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Anthony Chinies Ross and Peter King. Sydney, Sydney University Press 1966. Pp. 111. $2.00 (Aust.). ASPECTS OF AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE. Max Teichmann (ed.). For The Political Studies Association, Monash University, 1966. Pp. 88. $1.25 (Aust.).

AUSTRALIA, BRITAIN AND THE E.E.C. H. G. Gelber. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xii + 296. $9.50 (Aust.).

AUSTRALIAN POLICIES AND ATTITUDES TOWARD CHINA. Henry S. Albinski. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1965. Pp. 468. $14.75 (Aust.).

TOWARDS PEACE IN INDO‐CHINA. Anthony Eden {Earl of Avon). Chatham House Essays No. 14. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. x + 41 + 30 Select Documents. $1.80 (Aust.).

THAILAND AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA. Donald. E. Neuchterlein. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1965. Pp. 279. $6.70 (Aust).

MASK OF ASIA. THE PHILIPPINES. George FarweU. Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire, 1966. Pp. 227. $4.50 (Aust.).

JAPAN. LAND OF SUN AND STORM. Mildred Watt. Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire, 1966. Pp. 195. $5.00 (Aust).

THE ANGLO‐JAPANESE ALLIANCE: THE DIPLOMACY OF TWO ISLAND EMPIRES 1894–1907. I. H. Nish. London, Athlone Press, 1966. Pp. 420. 63/‐(stg.).

THE NEW ELITES OF TROPICAL AFRICA. P. C. Lloyd (ed.). London, Oxford University Press, 1966. For the International African Institute. Pp. x + 390. $7.80 (Aust.). This book is an attempt to open a new field in modern African studies.     

Reviews

NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION. THE TREATY AND AFTER. Michael E. Sherman. Toronto, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1968.. Pp. 98. $3.50 (Canadian).

CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1968. REFORM, REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE. Philip Windsor and Adam Roberts. London, Chatto & Windus, 1969. Pp. viii + 200. 15/‐ (stg.).

COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERSHIP IN THE USSR, 1917–1967. T. H. Rigby. Princeton University Press, 1968. Pp. 573. $15.00.

GENERAL GIAP, POLITICIAN AND STRATEGIST. Robert J. 0'Neill. Melbourne, Cassell Australia, 1969. Pp. 219. $5.50.

CANBERRA PAPERS ON DEFENCE AND STRATEGY. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1968–9.

No. 1 OIL SUPPLY IN AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE STRATEGY. Alex Hunter. Pp. 50. $1.50.

No. 2 THE STRATEGIC SITUATION IN THE 1980's. Geoffrey Jukes. Pp. 20. $050.

No. 3 AUSTRALIA AND THE NON‐PROLIFERATION TREATY. J. L. Richardson. Pp. 24. $050.

No. 4 AN AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR FORCE. Ian Bellany. Pp. 16. $050.

No. 5 EDUCATING FOR THE PROFESSION OF ARMS. P. H. Partridge. Pp. 18. $050.

THE FUTURE OF THE OVERSEAS CHINESE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Lea E. Williams. New York, McGraw‐Hill Book Company, 1966. Pp. xi + 143. $5.50 (U.S.).

THE COMMONWEALTH IN SOUTH ASIA. S. P. Aiyar. Bombay, Lalvani Publishing House, 1969. Pp. 409. Rs 30.00.

A SHORT HISTORY OF INDIA. Ian W. Mabbett. Melbourne, Cassell Australia, 1968. Pp. ix + 259. $4.75 hard cover, $3.25 paperback.

A SHORT HISTORY OF INDONESIA. Ailsa Zainu'ddin. Melbourne, Cassell Australia, 1969. Pp. xi + 290. $4.75 hard cover, $3.25 paperback.

TRADE AND AID IN SOUTH EAST ASIA. VOLUME I. MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE. Sumitro Djojohadikusomo. Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire, 1968. For the Committee for Economic Development of Australia. Pp. ix + 311. $10.     

Uranium-series dating rock art in East Timor

At many sites throughout the world rock art paintings have been covered by naturally deposited calcite laminations, which we demonstrate can be individually dated by recently improved uranium-series methods. Here we report the application of multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry to measure the ages for carbonate coatings that bracket red pigment at Lene Hara cave, East Timor, which could be evidence of human painting. These analyses establish the feasibility of dating milligram samples of finely layered calcite deposits associated with archaeological evidence of human occupation. In addition to confirming an age of less then 6300 years for the visible red paintings on the carbonate surface we also report a substantially older age of 24,000 to 29,300 years for a similar, older red pigment lamination providing possible evidence for an earlier painting episode.     

Book reviews

THE CAUSES OF WAR. Geoffrey Blainey. Macmillan, London, 1973. 333–14199–7. 278 pp. $9.50.

THE BASES OF INTERNATIONAL ORDER. Alan James (ed.) Oxford U.P., London, 1973. 0–19–215801–5. 218 pp. $10.10.

THE ABERYSTWYTH PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 1919–69. Brian Porter (ed.). Oxford University Press, London, 1972. 019 2151932. 390 pp. $17.10.

THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF KENNETH YOUNGER. Roger Morgan fed.). Oxford University Press, London, 1972. 019 214989X. 309 pp. $15.60.

FOREIGN POLICY FOR AUSTRALIA: CHOICES FOR THE SEVENTIES. Australian Institute of Political Science (Proceedings of the 39th Summer School). Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1973. 198 pp. $3.50.

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE RED BANTENG: INDONESIAN COMMUNISTS BETWEEN MOSCOW AND PEKING 1959–65. Antonie C. A. Dake. Mouton & Co., The Hague, 1973. 73–75520. 479 pp.

CANADA'S MARITIME FORCES. C. S. Gray. Wellesley Paper 1, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Toronto, 1973. 79 pp. $2.00.

CANADIAN MILITARY PROFESSIONAL: THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY. R. B. Byers and C. S. Gray (eds.). Wellesley Paper 2, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Toronto, 1973, 84 pp. $2.00.

DEFENCE PERSPECTIVES. Ken Keith (ed.). Price Milburn, Wellington, for the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 1972. 133 pp. 0–70 55367–4. $NZ2.00.

KOREA AND MANCHURIA BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN, 1895–1904: THE OBSERVATIONS OF SIR ERNEST SATOW, BRITISH MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY TO JAPAN (1895–1900) AND CHINA (1900–1906). Selected and Edited with a Historical Introduction by George Alexander Lensen. Sophia. University Tokyo in cooperation with The Diplomatic Press, Tallahassee, Florida, 1968. 296 pp. $US12.50.

JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY ON THE EVE OF THE PACIFIC WAR: A SOVIET VIEW. Leonid N. Kutakov. Edited with a Foreword by George Alexander Lensen. The Diplomatic Press, Tallahassee, Florida, 1972. 241 pp. $US15.00.

PORTRAITS OF THAI POLITICS. Jayanta Kumar Ray. Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1972. 225 pp. RS. 20.

HET EKONOMISCH BELEID IN NEDERLANDSCH‐INDIE, CAPITA SELECTA (Economic Policy in the Netherlands Indies, Selected Subjects), Part I. P. Creutzberg (ed.). Publication No. 5 of the ‘Committee for the Publication of Primary Sources Concerning the History of the Netherlands‐Indies 1900–1942’, Wolters‐Noordhoff, Groningen, The Netherlands, 1972. 756 pp.

MODERNIZATION IN EAST MALAYSIA 1960–1970. James P. Ongkili. Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1972. 123 pp. $4.80.

FOCUS ON WEST BENGAL. Shiresh Bhattacharyya (ed.). Samatat Prakashau, Calcutta, 1972. 207 pp. Deluxe Rs. 30.00, Popular Rs. 20.00.