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The greatest single reason for the swing away from Labour is a change in the soc structure in which the professional, white collar & intermediate groups are growing, & the manual Wc is getting smaller, while its soc outlook is being modified. Changes in educ & in the org of industry, full employment, att's towards trade unions, & the pressure towards conformity & concern with status in the new suburbia are among the factors contributing towards this development. An understanding of the changing soc background is of signif for the presentation & putting over of policy attractively to the electorate, & there is a need for large-scale advertising to overcome the current picture of the Labour Party as a dreary, quarrelsome, austerity-loving group. The genious of the Labour Party will only be revealed if it can adapt itself to the realities of econ & soc change. IPSA.

The foregoing has been an attempt to illustrate the process of psychiatric casework in the outpatient department of a United States army general hospital. Although social work in the army had its beginning during the recent war where it performed service in training camps, overseas bases, rehabilitation centers, and hospitals, in the years following the war it has become focused in well-defined areas. The casework process, as illustrated, is similar to social casework in many civilian psychiatric settings. The similarity is brought out intentionally. The basic skill of casework is the same in all settings. Casework is applicable to the military community to the same degree that it applies to any well-organized community. The soldier and his dependents live in surroundings that in many respects resemble those found in the average American town. In order that he may be a more efficient soldier the army community strives to meet his needs just as any town or city endeavors to meet the needs of its citizens. The neuropsychiatric outpatient clinic and the role of the social worker in such a clinic are but one example of the peacetime medical care program in the military community.

A Symposium The three papers presented here were given at a Forum of the New York Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, New York, N. Y., May 7, 1959. Mrs. Sonia S. Smick was Chairman of the Committee. Mr. Sharkey is Supervisor of the Division of Services to the Aged, Jewish Family Service, New York; he was formerly Director of Family Service, New York Association for New Americans. Mrs. Weinberg is Casework Supervisor, Foster Home Department, Jewish Child Care Association of New York. Mrs. Hochfeld is a Supervisor, International Social Service, American Branch, New York, N. Y.