Postage Stamp Republic

Postage Stamp RepublicThe most serene Republic of San Marino, an awesome, almost impregnable mountain of rock in northern Italy, is not only the oldest and smallest democracy in the world but, in the strictest sense of the word, is the only one. A short time ago, it had a Communist government and, as everybody surely knows by now, it had a civil war and has thrown the rascals out. The reaction to this in the American papers was one of almost eleutheromaniac joy. The Christian Science Monitor cal...