ABSTRACT
The moral challenge of a soldier's wartime conscience, which Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber described in his first book, Lieutenant in Algeria, was as nothing compared to the appeals and demands of his best-selling book on The American Challenge and the great global cry in his new book, simultaneously launched in fifteen countries. The reaction to the book suggests, if the matter needed any underlining, the vast turning away in the West from uncritical Third World posturing which began slowly in the early days of President Truman's “Point Four” program to the organized chorus of voices dinning in the halls of UN. No mean task for an ambitious publicist, but the realities may just not be so. Realities have to be programmed in before there is any hope of reality coming out. Not that Servan-Schreiber does not come up here end there with something interesting and dramatic; he is, after, all, a man of many qualities who has often been courageous and unconventional.
