Abstract

Editorials

This article presents brief information on socio-political conditions of several nations. Many of the present critics of the U.S. administration's policy of using the United Nations, as its main reliance in dealing with the world crisis were themselves advocating precisely this policy not so long ago. The U.S. Administration is to be commended for making every effort to expedite the approval of visas for Hungarian refugees--there are 70,000 or more in Austria, before the Refugee Relief Act expires on December 31. But if, given the procedures of the McCarran-Walter Act, as many as 5,000 receive visas by that date it will be something of a miracle. Two recent events--the awarding of a Nobel Prize to Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez and the death of Spanish novelist Pio Baroja--constitute an ironic foot-note to Franco Spain's entry, this year, into the United Nations.