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, I I - 3 - interest were several conferences with A.U.C. alumni, both individually and in groups. The Commission was impressed with the generally friendly attitude towards A.U.C., particularly in the prevailing anti-Western atmosphere in government circles in Cairo. Now, as during more critical times in the past, the Egyptians appear to discriminate favorably between official United States policy and a private American institution. The general drive for better and more education throughout the U.A.R. helps the position of A.U.C., particularly as it offers training in the English language. It is only fair to say that, at present, the wide influence exerted by A.U.C. among the Egyptian elite out of all proportion to the number of its graduates no longer prevails to the extent it has in the past. The University seems to affect only in a peripheral way the cultural life of the literate Cairo community, Egyptian universities having expanded and developed in such an unprecedented way during the last ten years. Even in this peripheral role, however, A.U.C. provides a modest but not uninfluential non-nationalistic center of learning where Egyptians and Westerners continue to meet on equal terms. In Egypt today, this is unusual and its value is all the more apparent to both sides. The Commission was also impressed by the charac