Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves knows the life of a refugee: His parents left Soviet-occupied Estonia for Sweden, where he was born, and then moved to the United States. His youth in Leonia, New Jersey happened to give him a perfect American accent—which he used this week to deliver one of the most eloquent and powerful speeches yet about Europe’s refugee crisis.
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