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...only international group conveniently at hand on whom South Viet Nam can rely is the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, made up of the U.S., Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan. Though neither South Viet Nam, nor neighboring Laos, nor Cambodia is a signatory of SEATO, all three countries are under the "protection" of the eight-nation alliance...
...Western motion on the matter sponsored by New Zealand and backed by the U.S. went to the Steering Committee last week even before Russia had time to present its own Communist resolution on the subject. By proposing debate, the State Department hopes to rally a majority of the Assembly behind its move to declare the whole matter of Chinese membership an "important question," i.e., substantive. Then the Communists will have to rake up an impossible two-thirds General Assembly vote to force China's Communists...
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...this largely autobiographical novel which, like The Snake Pit and a dozen other books, takes place inside a mental institution; but Faces in the Water is especially brilliant in its descriptions of what happens inside the patient's mind. When Istina, a schoolteacher, is committed to New Zealand's Cliffhaven hospital, medicine does what it can. But the nurses are exhausted by twelve-hour days, and there are only 1½ doctors for each thousand patients. Istina gets electric shock treatment, insulin is pumped into her veins, and she is shunted to foul-smelling dayrooms with the other...
Like her accomplished New Zealand predecessors, Katherine Mansfield and Sylvia (Spinster) Ashton-Warner, Janet Frame, 36, writes with a cool eye, a detached sympathy, and a warm but un-sloppy love of sane and insane alike. The daughter of a New Zealand railwayman, Author Frame has herself been in and out of mental hospitals as a voluntary patient. Shy and wary of publicity, she has recently changed her name to Janet Clutha (after a New Zealand river). But, under whatever name, her writing is sensitive, and her evocation of madness unforgettable...