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In th e Chair THosE who remember the new Chairman of

j the United Nations Assembly when he was Irish Ambassador in London will be the first II) congratulate the assembly on the wisdom of its choice. Frederick Boland was an expert expo- nent of what might be called the Irish version of brainwashing.. a host with the capacity to send his guests off into the night convinced that they had never been more lucid, more persuasive —unaware that their own views had been subtly modified, their prejudices expertly undermined Conservative by temperament and liberal in his sympathies. Mr. Boland should be admirably suited to control the deliberations of so diverse a gathering.