Abstract

Editorials

This article presents socio-political conditions of several nations. One night last week Canadian TV featured a gallery of startled faces. Pundits, editors, politicians, even the local version of UNIVAC, were trying vainly to comprehend and explain a stunning political upset. The Liberal Party, which had held power for thirty-one of the past thirty-six years, had been all but shattered in, an election. Walter S. Robertson, the Assistant Secretary of State of Washington, for Far Eastern Affairs, has been extremely busy issuing denials. Last month, the periodical "Newsweek," ascribed to "insiders" the belief that the Assistant Secretary might resign because he had been overruled en the question of American agreement to increased British and Japanese trade with China.