How a Waiter's Mixed-Up Breakfast Hardened the Cold War
20th Century

How a Waiter's Mixed-Up Breakfast Hardened the Cold War

A diplomat's morning coffee in a Bucharest hotel set off a chain reaction that would divide Europe for forty years.

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