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| Part 4 | Behind the Iron Curtain | 
| "Eastern Europe is one of the most complex and tragic areas in the 
world. Inhabited by several peoples who speak a variety of languages and 
espouse different faiths, the region for centuries has been a fated 
borderland of empire, a thoroughfare of conquest, and an object of 
partition and subjection". | 
|  | "American affinity with the troubled nations of 
Eastern Europe runs deep and strong. While it would 
be too much to expect that our initiatives can 
rapidly modify the Eastern European reality, they do 
serve to illuminate and reinforce the community of 
interest between our country and that area". | 
| "Eastern Europe is indeed dark and drab". | 
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