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THE AUTHOR TAKES A LOOK AT THE USE OF AIRPLANE TRAVEL FOR DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS. HE TRACES HOW ROBERT MCNAMARA FLEW BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN SAIGON AND WASHINGTON IN THE EARLY 60'S, HOW AVERELL HARRIMAN TOOK OFF TO INDIA AND PAKISTAN, & HOW HENRY KISSINGER FLIES FROM WASHINGTON TO NORTH VIETNAM, PARIS, CAMBODIA, AND BACK AGAIN. BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE IN TIME ZONES, JET LAG IS OBVIOUSLY A PROBLEM.

The Economic Commission for Europe is an organ of the United Nations which deserves to be better known. In a period when public attention has been focused on the Marshall Plan, and on the recurrent crises between the Soviet Union and the west, it has been given, understandably, little public attention in the United States or in Europe. The ECE is an all-European forum where certain major decisions concerning the European economy are regularly made. Among the participants in the ECE are all of the nations snaring in the Marshall Plan, as well as the United States. The chief United States representative to the ECE is Averill Harriman, whose deputy, Paul Porter, is stationed permanently in Geneva.