to-human contact that is so essential for understanding and interchange between cultures. As your great poet once said in his Meditations, and I need not name him to this audience: "....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." These words of wisdom apply to nations as well as to individuals. For no nation is an island unto itself. Thank you for listening"
