U(1) WITHOUT INSTANTONS

Witten's recent proposal that the U(1) problem might be solved in 1/N expanded QCD, is shown to be automatically consistent with expected θ dependences and anomalous Ward identities, if a (modified) Kogut-Susskind mechanism is used. Ward identities are algebraically saturated for large N. A sort of partial conservation of the U(1) current" is found to hold for the "η" field. © 1979."