摘要：One of the responsibilities Albright and Talbott entrusted me with when I joined the State
Department was the Baltic states. They both had a special interest in the issue. If NATO
enlargement was about creating a Europe whole and free and undoing historical injustice, then
there was no doubt in Albright’s mind that the Baltics qualified on both counts. One of her
favorite sayings about Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania was that one did not have to be located in
Central Europe to have Central Europe in one’s heart. Along with the subjugation of her native
Czechoslovakia in 1938, Albright considered the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the illegal annexation of
these three states by the USSR among the great injustices of the 20th century.
