| Summary: | -19- I do not have much sympathy with this attitude on the part of small countries. Aside from the fact that it is not very brave, it is not really very accurate either. In recent years those small countries which have followed their own course, or have actually defied the great powers, have had an impressive record of getting away with it; I am thinking, for example, of Mexico, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Cuba, Cambodia, and Iceland. It is not, however, by defying the big countries -- although that can have its uses -- but by bringing to bear the benign and objective influence of which those who are free of great pretensions are capable that a small country like Iceland can play a constructive role in world affairs. It can do so in a number of ways. It can help to breathe vitality into such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank
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