Holland, and the Scandinavian countries, had sprung up to assist the Sandinistas in their task of Stalinizing Nicaraguan society. What makes Nicaragua a cause worthy of Finnish support, then, is not its desire to be part of the Soviet bloc, or even the Sandinistas' supposedly revolutionary achievements at home, but the regime's opposition to the United States. The Jesuits are a mixed bag, representing all political points of view. The most leftward by far is an American who has just returned from twenty years' service in the Phillippines. Trieste is a city which reminds one, eloquently, of Europe's troubled history, and the price which is still being paid for the folly of the First World War. It mutely attests, as well, to the permanent damage done to Western civilization by the pernicious ideas of Woodrow Wilson. Though the Europeans can pretend the Third World is far away, it is becoming less so every day.