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^gypt you know wants to control , or annex the Sudan for ©any and 
obvious reasons, the chief of tfcich is the control of all the waters 
of thefiile upon which the entire region is so utterly dependent. 
The Kile is literally and actually the "Life Blood of Egypt." 'Bie 
May Header’s Digest has an article on the Efeypt of today tliat 
©ay be of scane interest to you in this connection. 
Khartoum is quite the modem city as cities and towns go in 
this part of the world , —metalled streets, as the British lay, (black 
top or oiled to you or me) tla'ough all the major thorough fares, 
some sidewalks but most are sand. In some ways I believe the unpaved 
streets are cooler, certainly they id.ll hold the heat less than 
pared roads. The stores here are a revelation, everything under tl» 
sun frm most any part of the world, and an overwhelming lot of 
American products, canned and manufactured, almost aiything you can 
think of even an ice cream fountain and soda bar, with meno and prices 
up on the -wall as in the chain drug stores at home. Ihis ice creata 
soda place was in the leading I want to say department store, 
principally groceries, and liquor. The leading bookstore too, has 
more English andteerican literature than you can shake a stick at, 
magazines of all kinds, frcsn raising children to flouse Beautiful, Time 
Life, and Headers Digest, and an equally wide coverage of English 
matter, and air editions of London papers Just a day old. Hox^ever, 
the latest Tine was Kay 9, and I’d ^ready seen the May 23 no. in 
Entebbe, We visited the library at the Gordon College, a wonderfully 
ooxaplete one for this part of the world and perhaps among the best 
and most complete in Africa,— South Africa may have a better one, I 
don’t know, or Gaiirs, where I may not see the library. Our State 
Department and U. Information Sei*vlce have provided a tremendous 
lot of American books, Sandberg’s Lincoln series, Thomas Jefferson 
