Word: balkanize
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Same day Moscow's Red Star jumped on a Christian Science Monitor dispatch from Istanbul as "a most stupid invention . . . shocking lie." Retorted the Monitor, which, like all but Russian papers, is kept out of most of the Balkans: "If our Balkan coverage has limitations, we would be glad for permission from the Soviet Government to expand it by placing correspondents [there...
Americans and Britishers so prone to characterize Russian diplomacy as "grasping" would do well to realize that they are not themselves perfect. All the United States wants, Professor Sorokin observed, is bases, trusteeships, and the right to interfere in Balkan and Mediterranean politics...
...longer enjoying British sanctuary from his Russian-controlled Government was another Balkan notable: Rumanian ex-Premier General Nicolai Radescu. He escaped to the British Legation in Bucharest last March, but has since returned to his home in Bucharest...
...Hollywood has seen some strange sights. But TIME is willing to bet a small Balkan kingdom against the head of Actor Morris' press agent that Hollywood will never see Britain's ex-King Edward VIII as a cinemactor...
...When Stirbey's attempt failed, Mihai appointed Dr. Peter Groza, aggressive leader of the troublemaking Democratic National Front - a thickset, moonfaced Transylvanian in the early 60s, whose large inherited land holdings qualified him to head the Ploughmen's Front. Until last year Groza was a small-time Balkan politician who made headlines when two angry landlords beat him up in the foyer of Bucharest's Athenee Palace Hotel...