Foreign News: ROLE IN SEARCH OF A HERO

The Three Circles of Nasser's Ambition

Nasser's The Philosophy of the Revolution, published two years ago, has now become must reading in Western chancelleries. France's Premier Mollet calls it Nasser's Mein Kampf. In a time of tension, the comparison is pat, but overreaching. Yet, like Mein Kampf, Nasser's little book is a self-revealing portrait of a restless, unstable man intoxicated with vast ambitions. Excerpts:

FATE does not jest and events are not a matter of chance−there is no existence out of nothing. We cannot look at the map of the world without seeing our own place on it ...

For some reason it...

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