Word: balkanize
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...while it looked as if Dimitrov would make himself head of a Red Balkan federation, but Moscow squelched the idea; lately, the Kremlin was rumored dissatisfied with Dimitrov's insufficiently vigorous opposition to Tito. The Politburo, it was said, sent a special four-man commission to keep an eye on Dimitrov...
Died. Archbishop Damaskinos (born Dimetrios Papandreou), 58, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) white-bearded Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church; after a heart attack; in Psychico, Greece. A onetime army private (in the 1912 Balkan War) an amateur wrestler, Damaskinos entered the priesthood in 1917, was elected Archbishop in 1938 but was exiled to a monastery by Dictator John Metaxas. He returned as Archbishop three years later, vigorously opposed the Nazi-led occupation (he sheltered Athens' Jews, offered himself as a hostage, went to the Germans carrying a rope and dared them to hang him). As regent...
Sleeping Car to Trieste (Rank; Eagle Lion) has plenty of plot, but hardly enough steam to keep it moving. Like most British suspense films involving a train with a Balkan destination, it is compounded of political assassination and intrigue, seasoned with romantic love and good-natured kidding of British innocents abroad...
What should have been fully explained is that non-Communist foreign correspondents have encountered so many obstacles to reporting the news in Russia's satellite Balkan countries that their number has been reduced to a handful. Each remaining correspondent wonders whether his next visa will be renewed. A recent departure from their thinning ranks was the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart who, although his visa was in perfect order, was given 24 hours to get out of Hungary for a straightforward piece of reporting that displeased the Communist authorities there...
...Last month the Communist Macedonian Peoples' Liberation front called for a "struggle to free the Macedonian people from Yugoslav and Greek domination." The Cominform's long-range goal was common knowledge, even in Belgrade: dismemberment of Yugoslavia into "sovereign" republics which would become part of a larger Balkan federation, probably headed by Bulgaria's Georgi Dimitrov...