Foreign News: The Other Fellows

To hear them talk, the four nations gathered at Vaduz last week had the sort of grievances that often lead to war. One of them, with a swollen population of 25,000 to the half square mile, desperately needs Lebensraum. Another has the largest number of Communists per capita in Western Europe, and civil strife is frequent. A third has constant border troubles with its neighbors, who seek to change the nation's traditional way of life.

Yet Europe did not tremble. The four pint-sized countries—Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino and Andorra—have a combined population of 63,300, and their total armed forces would be insufficient...

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