Word: balkanize
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...work and point for adjournment this week. Mr. Molotov agreed, since, he said, "the Soviet Government has decided to yield all along the line." These were tremendous words. Molotov agreed that free navigation of the Danube (his greatest concession in 15 months) should be written into the Balkan treaty texts...
...Seeing that complex subjects like the Balkan peace treaties are told clearly, so that readers who are not experts in foreign affairs will understand them...
...rest of his solid, well-balanced speech, Austin ignored Molotov's charges, expressed quiet optimism about U.N.'s achievements. The commissars from the Armenian mountains and the lawyers from the jungle's fringe, the princes of the Arabian desert and the polemicists from the Balkan cafés looked at the immaculate, stocky figure with varying degrees of understanding. Warren Robinson Austin, ex-Senator from Vermont, the President's Special Representative to the General Assembly, was the U.S.'s new Ambassador to the World...
...York Times's brilliant Anne O'Hare McCormick put it: "Somehow it remained for the discussion of the Balkan treaties to bring home how much physical and intellectual unity war has disrupted...
...nation Paris Peace Conference headed into its final week. In a slogging windup of committee work (before sending treaty texts to plenary sessions), Paris diplomats had argued and counter-drafted till sunrise, two nights in a row. On the third night, grappling with the economic clauses of the Balkan treaties, they reeled off 17 hours of continuous session-broken only by a ten-minute recess at 4 a.m. to permit delegates to get bracers before the bar closed. At the finish, U.S. Economist Willard Thorp slumped down Luxembourg's red-carpeted stairway and crawled into an automobile. He groaned...