ABSTRACT
One obvious manifestation of division would be reflected in the failure of certain member-societies to send representatives to the Assembly; another would be any resignations in Vienna itself. Many delegates with whom we raised the issue informally in Vienna felt that a widened remit was in principle a desirable step but shared a concern about the practicability and workability of a committee with undefined boundaries. An American-sponsored resolution, narrower than the British-Australasian one in the sense that it was confined to psychiatrists, but wider inasmuch as it referred to their vulnerability to abuse generally had met with the same cautious response from Peter Berner. The Committee consists of 24 members plus the retiring Executive, and serves as an advisory body to the new Executive, most importantly just preceding the meeting of the General Assembly. The active opponents of Soviet abuse had won the key votes handsomely, but at the expense of softening their central resolution.
