ABSTRACT
In its efforts to win over the Near and Middle East, the Soviet Union in 1956 made no pretence of relying solely on its own resources, whether political, military, economic, or cultural. The European satellites not only supplied arms and industrial equipment to the Arab states and India, but they participated in trade and cultural exhibits, furnished dancers, musicians, and scholars, in order to establish closer contacts with the peoples of Asia. In September, 1956, for instance, Yemen accepted a Czech offer to train Yemenite students gratis for six years in engineering and medicine at Czech universities.
