Cry cry what shall I cry?
The first thing to do is to form the committees:
The consultative councils, the standing committees, select committees and subcommittees. . . .
A committee has been appointed to nominate a conference of engineers
To consider the Water Supply.
A commission is appointed
For Public Works, chiefly the question of rebuilding the fortifications. . . .
O mother
What shall I cry?
We demand a committee, a representative committee, a committee of investigation. . . .
—from T. S. Eliot's Difficulties of a Statesman*
Many U.N. delegates, like Eliot, last week lamented...
