From Stettin in the Baltic
to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and
Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest
and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what
I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not
only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing
measure of control from Moscow.