Word: balkanize
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...with Topeka) was the man who, even more than Harry Truman, had made Americans veto-conscious. There had been ten Russian vetoes in 14 months; no other power had ever vetoed the will of the Council majority. Two weeks ago came veto No. 11. The majority of U.N.'s Balkan Commission had reported that Greece's Communist neighbors were supporting Greece's Communist guerrillas. The U.S. proposed a border watch. Gromyko promptly vetoed it. Last week Gromyko got around to explaining his veto. His remarks were intended for gulliberals of the Henry Wallace school rather than for his Security Council...
...Council adjourned a 6:51 p.m. and will take up the Egyptian case again Wednesday. The Council will meet twice tomorrow to consider the Balkan and Indonesian questions...
...vote that really counted-the noes on the U.S. motion as a whole. Quickly he shot up his own hand. Then Russia's sullen Andrei Gromyko raised his. Thus, for the eleventh time in the short history of the United Nations, Russia had used the veto. The Balkan peace watch was dead...
...Balkan shipping on the Danube, all Rumanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian air transport...
There was, of course, always a chance-but not much of a chance-that Russia's Balkan stooge-states might go crazy with the expansionist itch and provoke a war which Russia quite certainly did not want at this time. Said a State Department official: "Russia is just as worried." Washington's intelligence reported that the Communists had assembled an international brigade near the Greek border. The U.S. hoped that when Russia saw that its bluff had been called, the brigade would melt away. The tension would last until U.S. arms for the Greek Army began to arrive...