Word: balkanize
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Tangible Assets. But the Russians could afford to bide their time. They had tangible assets. There was popular King Mihai, who, with Marshal Tito, is the only Balkan leader to receive the exalted Soviet Order of Victory medal. There was Premier Peter Groza, Soviet stooge and physical culture enthusiast, whose family remains in his native Transylvania while he lives with his mistress in Bucharest. There were the only two divisions of Rumanian troops repatriated, after proper indoctrination, from Russia. They constituted an incipient praetorian guard...
...Inspecting all Soviet Army forces in the Balkans (according to "official Balkan circles"): Marshal Georgi Konstantino-vich Zhukov, former Russian commander in Germany, hitherto rumored in disgrace as governor of Russia's Southern Ukrainian military region. The Ukrainian military district, the report claims, embraces all the Balkans (including the Dardanelles...
...government of the South Slav lands into a model Communist police state. His NKVD-trained secret police force, OZNA (Committee for the Protection of the People), together with the Partisans, has liquidated an estimated 200,000 people and imprisoned an estimated 100,000. It has established agents in all Balkan countries and Italy. OZNA is headed by able, notoriously cruel Lieut. General Alexander ("Marko") Rankovich, 35, former journeyman tailor and veteran Communist...
...Security Council (at Lake Success, N.Y.) was officially treated to a study of Balkan problems last week. The subject: Greek-Albanian border incidents. The occasion: the submitting to the Security Council of reports by the Governments of Greece and the Socialist Soviet Republic of Ukraine (acting for Albania). Some distressing details: one Demetrios Drallios of Argyrochorion, a Greek, reported the loss of a mule; one Aliko Yaco of Radat, Albania, complained of the disappearance of an ox. Each Government charged the other with provocative acts. Among them: whitewashing frontier markers without permission; sending soldiers to slink about and ring cowbells...
Greeks voted in a crucial plebiscite last week. Nominally, they were voting whether or not to bring back King George II from British exile. Actually, they were deciding whether Greece should remain the only Balkan country uncontrolled by Russia, or become a Soviet satellite, as would surely happen if leftists won. At week's end, not all the votes had been counted. But the result seemed certain: Royalist victory...