Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.
ATTRIBUTION:
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989), Soviet diplomat. New York Herald Tribune (June 30, 1953).
