tions are utterly separate and unique, some of larger, latter-day states. The Fourth World them very ancient indeed, as in the case of the
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LITTLE NATIONS

ALASTAIR REID

Basques of Spain. The demands of such en- claves may very well occupy an international small-claims court for the next century. At present, we are made only too brutally aware of the ruthlessness and mindlessness of their impatience.In talking about thwarted nation- alism, however, one fundamental point has t...