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The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order In a country like Britain which at the close of 20th century is regarded as being among the distinguished developed nations of the world, prejudices have been at work until this day and its politics has not been able to free itself from prejudices. In Ireland, religious prejudice mixed with politics is showing its true colours. Despite the fact that the historical practice of colonialism appears to have ended, it is still being practised. The rule of the British may have shrunk and is now practically confined to its own territory but the economical muscle and political influence stretches throughout, in many places of the world. This prejudice gives them the feeling that they have the right to rule the world and to rule its economy and its geography and to control the making and breaking of the relations with other countries. This attitude is showing its effect and they still consider that the smaller countries should not have the final and full authority about their foreign policy but in fact Britain should formulate their foreign policy. On the surface, the world does not observe any desire on the part of the developed nations to exercise any influence on the developing countries but in reality they have a strong urge to dictate the fundamental and major forei gn policies to the smaller nations. This is the time when smaller nations realize that their foreign policies are not independent. What happens in practice is that, the stronger nations formulate the foreign policy of the smaller nations in such a way that they draw certain lines for the smaller nations. If these smaller nations develop contact with other nations or make changes in their policy while remaining within those "boundaries", then there is no objection but as soon as they venture to cross those lines, these developed nations find some pretext to interfere in their policies. Thus, they are not allowed to follow any independent policy. DANGERS OF RACIAL PREJUDICES IN RUSSIA For instance in the way of racial prejudices at the moment, we can see many kinds of dangers in the Soviet Union. Turkish nation is now passing through such a historic period from the racial prejudice that new thoughts and new hopes are being born among it. The fact is that this nation is likely to take certain steps in the next few years which could result in significant worldwide changes, or it might as well have an impact on world peace. In the last sermon I had said that the majority of the Turks live outside Turkey and that more than half of 109