Word: balkanize
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...anecdotes, among many, serve to illustrate what Correspondent Low has been up against intrying to get the news of Russia's satellite Balkan countries. During arecent meeting with a Western-educated top official of one of the satellites, they talked in normal conversational idiom until Low asked a leading political question. The official said: "I'll answer you, but from now on, you understand, I must use my own vocabulary." Then he began: "As for the imperialist-fascist Western powers attempting to spread their poison within these freedom-loving democracies . . ." Says Low: "At that juncture you either abandon...
...that the Balkan satellites are closed to him, Low confesses to a certain loneliness: "You miss those little men from the security police who tail you, the knowledge that your telephone is tapped, and the interesting things the Communist newspapers write about you" (one described Low as "the Ronald Colman-type champion of American imperialism"). As a final bit of intelligence extracted from his last trip behind the Curtain, Low reports that the hottest black market item now is playing cards. None have been manufactured there since before the war, and there are no Communist allocations for reviving the industry...
Bulgaria has only 8,300 Protestants. The predominant sect (84%) is the Moscow-stooge Greek Orthodox Church. Communist Premier Georgi Dimitrov comes from one of the country's few Congregationalist families. Last week, a U.S. Balkan expert noted that Dimitrov's first "revolutionary act" was refusal to go to Sunday school, his most recent was to jail 15 of Bulgaria's leading Protestant churchmen...
...year-old deposed ruler of the Balkan state, who has been in this country about a month, spent yesterday on the south bank of the Charles "studying American business methods' and talking to faculty members and newspapermen...
Athens had long suspected that something was going to happen to headstrong Markos. Nearly a year ago, government intelligence officers got hold of a letter purported to have been written by Markos to Zachariades, in which he criticized not only the Balkan satellites but Moscow itself...