{The Coming-of-Age of America [continued]}[6th January 1976]

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That time will come – tomorrow, or the day after, or later; and it may well come before the end of this terrifying Century. If the World comes through unscathed – if America lives up to these expectations, or if (against all likelihood) the Russian Government from the start shows a similar maturity and humanity in its dealings with its own subjects – then will be the time to talk of 'peace, the union and the change'. The greater part of Russia has much more in common with non-Soviet Europe and North America than with any other part of the World: these three areas are in many ways complementary, as is shown both by their history and by their geography. (See, for example, the distribution of their population on the World map.)

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