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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2008
If books and articles about the United Nations can hardly compete in sheer volume with the words produced by the Organisation itself; the literature is abundant. A review has therefore to be selective, and in this article attention is concentrated on what has been written about, but not by, the Secretariat in the last decade. The scope is further narrowed by focusing mainly on what has been published about the activities of the U.N. in Africa. Even so the range remains very wide, and no claim is made that all the relevant literature has been assessed.
Page 679 note 1 See, for example, Hoskyns, Catherine, ‘Sources for a Study of the Congo since Independence’, in The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), I, 3, 10 1963, pp. 373–82,Google Scholar and a review of a number of recent works by Stephen R. Weissman in ibid. XI, 4, December 1973, pp. 649–53.
Page 680 note 1 In refutation of O'Brien's, Connor Cruise own brilliantly-written special pleading in To Katanga and Back (London, 1962).Google Scholar
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Page 687 note 1 It must be noted, however, that the 1974 session of the General Assembly took a step backwards from universality by virtually expelling South Africa and severely limiting the rights of Israel-indeed, with regard to the latter state, Unesco has gone even further.
Page 688 note 1 This is the most remarkable work about the U.N. to emerge in the last decade, but as such is outside the purview of this article since it was written within the Organisation, and was reviewed in this Journal, VIII, 2, 07 1970, pp. 311–13.Google Scholar It was commissioned to examine and make recommendations for fundamental reforms in the entire U.N. development system and, more important than its literary qualities, it has already led to major changes which are modifying the whole nature and improving the efficiency of U.N. development programmes.
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