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.

-Curran, Charles
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.

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

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