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Japan doesn't like foreign troops . . . "Yet, right now American products have never been so popular." * Does Formosa want us out? . . . "Certainly not, according to every Chinese I talked to." NBC cameraman Sy Avnet prepares to cover interview of Taipeh citizens. A-Bomb Experiments But this sort of thing was to be expected in Egypt where an anti-American campaign has been waged for many months. It came as something of a surprise to hear much the same sort of thing from Indians. In Calcutta, two lady professors solemnly informed me that because of American and British hydrogen bomb experi- ments the climate of West Bengal has changed in the past couple of years, decreasing the food supply in this food deficient nation. How do they know this? Oh, everybody knows it. How about the Russian experi- ments; have they had anything to do with this unfortu- nate situation? Well, they didn't know about that but they did know about the American bombs. They knew, too, that it was the bomb experiments which caused the Asian flu! Now, I had been prepared for a great deal by this time, but I must confess when I heard that statement made so calmly and so positively I couldn't think of a thing to say. Nor is that the opinion of just a few. Hundreds of thousands of people have been told it and by now subscribe to just such views. The question is, why do they believe such things? In some cases the answers are easy. Take India, for example. To us there is only one important menace in the world and that, of course, is the Soviet Union. But, India is a new nation, only ten years old, and as com- pletely wrapped up in her own direct concerns as new and insecure nations are likely to be; as we ourselves were one hundred and fifty years ago. India has been in conflict with only one nation during her short history and that nation is her neighbor, Pakistan. Harsh words have been continually flung back and forth and the issue of Kashmir is still the big story in this country. America Suspect To Indians of whatever degree the only nation which threatens the peace is Pakistan. America has been giving arms to Pakistan, therefore America is suspect. It is as simple as that. Indians do not believe that Red Russian imperialism menaces Pakistan and they are convinced that if we do believe it we are at best naive, at worst plotting with her neighbor to destroy her. As for Egypt, the answer there is even more simple. All organs of public opinion there are under government control and at this time Egypt's government is anti- American—so anti-American that at the time I was there 18 ELECTRONIC AGE