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Address before the Am. academy of political and social science, Philadelphia, Apr. 18-19, 1952.

Soviet Asian studies may become as important for world politics as Soviet sci. These studies began long before the Revolution & the Soviet built upon a pre-existent foundation. From 1950 work has been stepped up. After the Bandung Conference there was a shift from hostility to friendship to Asian `bourgeois nationalism'. The centralization of control in Moscow has been accompanied by a signif dispersal of Soviet oriental studies-the reverse of the Tsarist development. Basic solid factual res is being combined with pol'al work. Soviet academicians are now taking part in international congresses of orientalists & displaying impressive scholarship. But the main function of the Russian orientalists is to support Moscow's policy-objective of identification with Afro-Asian solidarity. IPSA.

WithinTheLast decade, the United Nations has undergone three modifications which, taken separately, are quite significant; together, they represent a true metagenesis of the Organization.The first modification paralleled a development which had occurred in the League of Nations: both organizations were designed to be led, if not controlled, by the powerful members permanently seated in the League's Council and the United Nations' Security Council. In both organizations, however, the less powerful member states, in spite of the constitutional provisions, have persisted in endeavoring to assert themselves and have sought in numbers a balance to, and — whenever feasible — a substitute for, the authority lodged with the few strongest nations. The ultimate acquisition of prestige by the Assembly of the League of Nations was their success.