Volume 11, Number 9 · November 21, 1968
Mission Impossible
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
The "Other" State Department: The United States Mission to the United Nations—Its Role in the Making of Foreign Policy
by Arnold Beichman, with a Foreword by Leland M. Goodrich
Basic Books, 224 pp., $5.95
Mr. Beichman is a journalist, with long experience of covering United Nations activities, and of being briefed by the United States Mission to the United Nations ('USUN'). He is now, it appears, a graduate student in political science at Columbia, and his present book is an effort to apply the concepts, methods, and language of a school of contemporary American political science to an institution with which he has had close professional contact. It is also an effort to show that the institution—USUN—is more important, and more nearly autonomous, than most students of the United Nations have hitherto supposed.
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