Word: balkanize
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...victors know that an Italian or Balkan settlement makes little sense until they decide whether there will be one Germany or two (and, consequently, one Europe or two, one world or two). So far, an integrated approach to the peace is blocked by Russia's policy of prolonging the unsettled conditions in which Communism might flourish. The only course open to the U.S. and Britain was to insist that the 17 smaller nations be called to Paris where, beginning July 29, they will work on the edges of the puzzle-Finland, Italy, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary...
Occupation. Allied troops (the Red Army in Finland and the Balkan countries, U.S. and British troops in Italy) will withdraw from the ex-enemy nations within 90 days after the treaties come into force. But Russia put a joker into the Hungary and Rumania treaties; it can keep "such armed forces as it may need for maintenance of lines of communication of the Red Army with the Soviet zone of occupation in Austria." (Meanwhile, the Russians refuse even to consider peace with Austria.) Although the easiest access to Austria for the U.S. and Britain is through the Adriatic, the Western...
...future of Danubian peoples depended less on whether they lived under the Rumanian or Hungarian or other national flag than whether they were allowed to trade with the whole world-and not merely with Russia. The U.S. had offered a clause for all the Balkan treaties: "Navigation of the Danube . . . shall be free and open on terms of entire equality to nationals, vessels of commerce and goods of all states." Russia has not accepted the clause. The free Danube thus becomes the most significant issue presented to the Paris conference...
...Four meeting thus closed were well symbolized by Jimmy Byrnes's circular doodles. For four weeks, the Ministers had moved, in vicious and constricting circles, around the central issue of peace. They had achieved synthetic agreement on their approach to peripheral problems, like Italian reparations arid the Balkan satellite peace treaties. But the central question was what kind of Europe the victors should raise from the ruins; in the "settlements" of Paris II, Russia's and the West's conflicting answers had been clarified, but not reconciled. In a report to the U.S. people this week, Secretary...
...these plants, and many another shoe factory, may soon face competition from the nationalized plant at Zlin. Though many of Zlin's shoes are now going to Russia in exchange for raw materials, Bata is also exporting to Sweden and Balkan countries. And buyers from the U.S., who once bought 40% of Bata's shoes, have already descended on Zlin. But Bata has no shoes for the U.S. as yet, and does not know when it will have. When it does, Bata may find it much harder to undersell U.S. shoemakers. Since 1939, the retail price of Bata...