Word: balkanize
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Behind the haggle over details, however, is the common conviction that in case of real trouble, all are in it together. Thus the new Balkan pact, in effect, closes the last gap in NATO's ring around Europe, which begins in Iceland and extends to Mount Ararat. So happy did Tito feel about the whole thing that at the party after the signing, he passed word around that he meant to celebrate until the small hours; anyone who was sleepy should forget about protocol and leave ahead...
...second day, Tito sat down with Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, the Greek Premier. Within two hours they had agreed to the final details of a new Balkan entente, the first in 20 years. Without any nudging from the West, without any inducements of cash or arms, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey voluntarily allied themselves against Soviet imperialism. (If anything, Britain and the U.S. tried to stall the pending pact, lest it irritate Italy, which is still at odds with Tito over Trieste.) The agreement will mobilize a combined army of 800,000 tough fighters to repel any attack from or through...
...Lobsterwitz, Balkan...
...talks were informal, to the point, and fruitful. Before the week was out, Tito's Foreign Secretary Koca Popovic announced that Yugoslavia and Turkey had agreed, "in principle," on a three-nation Balkan military alliance. Greece, left out of the week's talks, protested that the agreement had been reached without consulting her, but the Little Three's Big Two were confident that their junior partner's ruffled feathers would be smoothed out when Tito visits Athens shortly...
Later that year, Twining swung through Washington expecting rest leave, instead got command of the new Fifteenth Air Force in Italy, engineered the heavy bomb raids on the Axis' Balkan underbelly, notably on Rumania's Ploesti oil refineries. After V-E day, briefly succeeded Curtis Le-May as commander of the Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific, four months later took over as boss of the Air Materiel Command, Wright Field. In 1947, Twining got command of the Alaskan theater, in 1950 became General Van-denberg's Vice Chief of Staff, and in June 1953, Chief...