"In Geneva every year for about a month," WFB begins, "a body called the

Commission on Human Rights meets for the purpose--one would suppose on surveying its record--of reiterating its disapproval of South Africa, Israel, and Chile. To the astonishment of the nations assembled, our representative this year brought up the subject of human rights violated elsewhere, for instance, in the Soviet Union and Uganda. For several tumultuous weeks, the Commission on Human Rights was convulsed ..." But the State Department forgave Allard Lowenstein, who here zestfully recounts his adventures. "I said to Zorin, 'You know, in the Congress of the United States, Ambassador Zorin, we have a saying that we can disagree without being disagreeable,' and his interpreter said, 'I can't translate that into Russian.' I offered to try to say it in French or German. I'm not sure that would have improved things."