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Balkans quotes

  • If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.

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      Attributed deathbed remark. Quoted in the House of Commons,16  Aug1945.

  • One of nature's Balkans.

    - Charles Curran
    Of his friend and fellow journalist, Rebecca West. Quoted by V S Pritchett in the NewYorker, 21 Dec1987.

  • The only thing the Balkans export is history.

    -Jim (James Albert Smith) Leach
       WAMU broadcast, Washington, 25 Nov.

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