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Show A CONFUSED WORLD by Merle Riche It is almost too much to ask any man to follow the tortuous :hanges in international affairs. For example, if war should break out in the Middle East Nasser will be fighting with Russian weapons. weap-ons. Kasem, so-called so-called champion of the Communists, Commu-nists, will be f-y t -sr. ! fighting with British weapons. Meantime Khrushchev, posing as a westerner at heart, has proposed pro-posed secret offers to Adenauer. Slyly he insinuates that China is the real enemy and that Russia and Germany should team up to eliminate that danger. All the while he also pictures to Adenauer that America, Britaia and France will never deliver with their promises to Germany. While all this goes on, of course, Mao Tse-tung is suspi- ious of Khrushchev. Therefore, Red China seeks to involve Russia in war which would exhaust both the Reds and the West. For this Mao has said that he can afford to sacrifice 300,000,000 men and still come out of the war as the leading nation of the world. Though there is much in the news about Russia's part in building build-ing the great new Egyptian dam it should also be noted that the ten-foot high neon letters that flash out over the Nile spell only one word-- KRUPP. This great German concern with its far-flung ramifications has once again reached Africa on the Nile and this to fill the gap that Russia cannot fill and that is to deliver consumer goods at a price that will ensure them the business. Germany is an increasingly important factor in the Middle East. She is popular among the Arabs and the fact that Germany has bought arms, from Israel has had great impact. Washington was right when he warned America against foreign entanglements. |