Abstract
The future of this part of the world is both auspicious and dangerous. I am reminded of the famous medical case of “Uncle Toby,” who suffered from a thyroid malfunction which reduced his metabolic rate to almost zero, effectively putting him in cold storage for seven years. When he was cured, it turned out that he had a malignant form of cancer which, after being dormant for those seven years, spread and quickly killed him. Eastern Europe, awakening from the cold storage of authoritarian repression, must now contend with the dangers of virulent nationalism. Yugoslavia is not immune.
U.S. Ambassador Warren Zimmermann
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