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their wealthier neighbors."

The Swede pressed his lips together before continuing. "Unfortunately
the Reunited Nations, as the United Nations and the League of Nations
before it, is composed of members each with its own irons in the fire. Each
with its own plans and schemes." His voice was bitter now. "The Arab
Union with its desire to unite all Islam into one. The Soviet Complex with
its ultimate dream of a soviet world. The capitalistic economies of the
British Commonwealth, Common Europe, and your United States of the
Americas, with their hunger for, positive need for, sources of raw
materials and markets for their manufactured products. All, though
paying lip service to the African Development Project, have still their own
ambitions."

Sven Zetterberg waggled a finger at Homer Crawford. "I do not charge
that your United States is attempting to take over Africa, or even any
section of it, in the old colonialistic sense. Even England and France have
discovered that it is much simpler to dominate economically than to go
through all the expense and effort of governing another people. That is the
basic reason they gave up their empires. No, your United States would
love to so dominate Africa that her products, her entrepreneurs, would
flood the continent to the virtual exclusion of such economic competitors
as Common Europe. The Commonwealth feels the same; so does the
French Community. The Soviets and Arabs have different motivations, but
they, too, wish to take over. The result тАж" The Swede tossed up his hands
in a gesture more Gallic than Scandinavian.

"What has all this got to do with El Hassan?" Homer Crawford asked
softly.

The Swede leaned forward. "If we more devoted adherents of the
Reunited Nations are ever to see our hopes come true, Africa must be
united and made strong. And this must be done through the efforts of
Africans, not Russians, British, French, Arabs тАж nor even Scandinavians.
Socio-economic changes should not, possibly cannot, be inflicted upon a
people from without. Look at the mess the Russians made in such
countries as Hungary, or the Americans in such as South Korea."

"The people themselves must have the dream," Crawford said softly.

"I beg your pardon?"

"Nothing. Go on."

Zetterberg said, "On the surface, great progress seems to be continuing.
Afforestation of the Sahara, the solar pumps creating new oases, the water
purification plants on the Atlantic and Mediterranean, pushing back the
desert, the oil fields, the mines, the roads, the damming of the Niger. But
already cracks can be seen. A week or so ago, a team of Cubans,
supposedly, at least, in the Sudan to improve sugar refining methods, were