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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 13. 1961
Afghans Aim of US, Red China
The United States and the Soviet Union are carrying on competitive, but complementary foreign aid programs in Afghanistan said Louis Dupree, American University Field Service speaker yesterday.
"We call it competition, but actually both countries are aiding the development of neutral Afghanistan in such a way as to complement each other's efforts," he said.
Mr. Dupree was speaking to the Faculty Forum on "Foreign Aid in Afghanistan."
"UNTIL 1950, practically all aid to the country was in American hands, then Russia came to the scene," Mr. Dupree said. "Now there are between 1,500 and 2,000 Soviet technicians living and working on aid projects within the country itself."
"Afghanistan was the guinea pig
Art Reference Library to Open
The opening of the new Art Reference Collection of Photographs of the Museum of Art will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. today. The room containing this collection will be used as a seminar room for advanced courses in the study of art and also as a study room for students of art history.
The public is invited to the opening and coffee will be served.
More than 40,000 photographs relating to the slides of paintings, architecture and sculpture shown in the art history classes have been mounted, filed, catalogued and put on reserve. A person will check the photographs out to students for reference.
A special entrance to the Art Reference Collection of Photographs has been opened at the lowest level of the museum off 14th Street. It can also be reached by going through the exhibit rooms in the basement.
Other exhibits of interest for those attending the opening include the gallery of Oriental Art, the "Visual Essays—Photographic Backgrounds to Works of Art" and the "Ancient Art" exhibit. All of these projects have just recently been completed by the museum staff.
for the beginning of the economic experiment in Soviet penetration," he explained. "It was a good selection for it is the only neutral noncommunist country that borders on the USSR and Soviet China."
Afghanistan was neutral in World Wars I and II. It is now neutral and independent and intends to stay so. Illiteracy is high, about 85 per cent, but there has never been a census taken, and many portions of the country the size of Texas remain in the backwoods.
APPROXIMATEY $250 MILLION is being supplied to the country by the USSR; the United States allows for $127 million.
"The Soviet theory of economic penetration is based on the fact that it is possible to affect all of society by affecting first, one unit of society."Mr. Dupree said.
For instance, if money is poured into the economic welfare, then eventually the religious, family and social welfare will also be under the influence of the organization giving the economic assistance.
"The theory is perfectly correct," he said, "and it will affect all of the country.
the organizers of the teaching of obligation and responsibility in public administration.
"THE TWO MOST important institutions in society in Afghanistan are being influenced by the Americans, not the Russians. We are in charge of all aid to education, and
English is the major wedge in education, and the language is being taught in all schools. It is a conceptualizing tool, and when one understands it, he thinks in that language, said Mr. Dupree.
"This pattern of neutrality is a coming thing." the speaker continued. The United States and Russia are going to be working close to one another in many fields.
"TWO YEARS AGO Afghanistan surprised both the United States and Russia by contracting with a Russian firm to build highways in the southern section of the country, which usually is an area of American influence, and arranging with a United States firm to build airplane bases in the northern sector where Russian influence has been strong.
"This means that United States and Russian workmen and technological experts are living and working quite close together. Who knows? Maybe this experiment by the Afghanistans of United States and Soviet cooperation will work not only in aiding their progress but help the rival relations of the two countries."
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.—Rousseau
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