Each of the individual reports from the six countries in the preceding chapters presents a description of the state of affairs in the country in terms of the common purpose of our joint study.

The state of affairs differs from country to country, and the particular concerns and personal backgrounds of the authors are, of course, not the same. For these reasons the presentations may appear at a glance to be too divergent in their content to permit any reasonable conclusions common to all. By examining each report carefully, however, invaluable suggestions related to the working hypotheses stated in the Introduction are found to be scattered throughout or, at least, underlying each of the descriptions. Especially remarkable points of such suggestions will be sketched out below as the editor considers relevant to the working hypotheses. Some important relevant points of each report will be first summarized as follows.¹