Frederick Henry Boland's chances of becoming the next president of the U.N. General Assembly next fall already seem as surefire as those of a Democratic primary winner running in a final election in the Deep South. Last week he got combined backing of the U.S., Great Britain and Canada. Besides this powerful support, Boland can count on the consistent anticolonial stand of his native Ireland to help win Latin American and Afro-Asian nations. His rival, Czechoslovakia's Jiri Nosek, can count for sure only on the nine votes of the Communist bloc.
Though Ireland is a relative newcomer to the U.N....
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