Word: balkan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crisis. The events which sent M. Pashitch hurrying to his King were typical of many a Balkan crisis. The country had supposed that Foreign Minister Nintchitch* was in close touch with Premier Mussolini, and also that the new Jugoslav-born President Zogu of Albania was under his thumb. Like a thunderclap had come the news that Albania and Italy had concluded a mutual accord (TIME, Dec. 13). A rumor spread that this treaty contained secret military clauses which would make Albania an Italian pistol pointed at Jugoslavia. Suspicion, fear, hate seethed. Evidently Foreign Minister Nintchitch was a fool...
Thus popularly reviled Foreign Minister Nintchitch resigned. The long tottering cabinet of Premier Uzunovitch fell with him. All this occurred?in typical Balkan fashion?before the Italo-A1bania Treaty of Tirana had been registered with the League, as it soon will be, and in spite of vigorous Italian denials that it contains any military clauses whatever. A scalding teapot tempest brewed...
...trouble," maintained Professor Barnes. "This strait, her only outlet to the Mediterranean Sea, was owned by Turkey, and for three years Russian played fast and loose with Turkey, with her eye on the strait. Turkey saw through the device, and Russia turned to stirring up the Balkan States against the Ottomans. The Balkan War ended this plan, and the Czar saw that only in a general European War could his ambitions...
With this slogan-battle-cry able Balkan Publicist Richard Kouden-hove-Kalergi, by maternal strain a Japanese, by paternal inheritance a count of Austria, has been seeking for some five years to assemble a congress of Pan-Europeans...
...would be a trifle young: Beatriz, 17, and Maria Christina, 14. Princess Giovanna of Italy is 18, but Rome and Brussels are not so near as they used to be before the appearance of Mussolini with his antipathy for Belgium. Princess Ileana of Rumania, sole unmarried daughter of a Balkan monarch, is of course only...