PAKISTAN: Thanks

The wharves of Karachi were gay with posters that showed U.S. and Pakistani flags joined by clasped hands beneath a stalk of wheat. Cabinet ministers, a 40-piece band and 2,000 spectators were on hand to greet the U.S. freighter Anchorage Victory, bringing the first of 1,000,000 tons of surplus wheat sent by President Eisenhower to relieve the nation's famine.

"Real friends, indeed," said Prime Minister Mohammed Ali, who during his 14 months as Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. learned to like American food, slang and automobiles, and learned the value of the old American custom of saying thank you. While U.S. visitors, accustomed to Asian suspicion or dislike of the U.S., were still getting over their surprise, 98 camels were shuffled up with their carts, to take the wheat to the railroad station to be sent upcountry. Around the camels' scrawny necks hung placards in Urdu, reading: "Thank you, U.S.A."