Word: balkan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Memoir of the Bobotes, by Joyce Gary. Written when the future novelist was a young man and still three decades away from literary greatness, this unpretentious and unfinished collection of notes about a half-forgotten Balkan war is nevertheless rich with observed truth about arms...
...secret service men disguised as Morris dancers. When this proves disastrous (the island's king, about to die of boredom, is assassinated), C-B flies out to compound the calamity, ably assisted by Gaillardia's Prime Minister Amphibulos (Peter Sellers), who embodies everything fine and honest in Balkan politics. Eventually, the U.N. (accompanied by a faint but distinct celestial choir) decides to partition Gaillardia, an act undertaken with marvelous literalness by painting a chalk line down its middle, ruthlessly separating sow from piglet, peasant from privy. To their horror, the British discover that a deposit of Epsom salts...
Died. Ante Pavelic, 70, fanatical Croatian nationalist who carried the logic of national self-determination to its ultimate conclusion and sacrificed his countrymen to the savagery of the Nazis, represented more than any other living person the bitter, neurotic type of Balkan extremist who helped plunge Europe into two devastating wars; of the effects of a bullet lodged in his body three years ago by an assassin; in Madrid. Embittered by the Allies' creation of Yugoslavia after World War I, Pavelic promised obedience to Nazi Germany in return for a new state of Croatia with himself at the head...