Word: balkanize
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...French Army must guard the postwar German frontier "from one end of the Rhine to the other." ¶The Ruhr valley and all lands west of the Rhine must not be part of the postwar "German State or States." ¶Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and the Balkan countries must be independent-and free to make alliances with France. ¶"We alone [cannot] insure the security of Europe. We must have alliances. We have concluded a great and good alliance with strong and courageous Soviet Russia. . . . We are desirous of signing one some day with brave old England, as soon...
...Balkan nations, Russia with a political foreknowledge the democratic nations could not hope to duplicate, was able to assure herself of a friendly and apparently representative Government in Hungary. Its 230-man National Assembly had Communists and Social Democrats, but it also had men of the Peasant League and the National Bloc (of Liberals and Conservatives), whom Russia presumably had scrutinized long since...
...Russians' four-month campaign to knock the Balkan satellites out of the war appeared to be near another climax: capture of Budapest and a break into the Slovak approaches to Vienna...
...Hoxha's men were concerned, the Balkan Federation advocated by Marshal Tito must wait until Albania's private boundary dispute with Greece was settled. But with Soviet Russia, Albania was on cordial terms. Last week Premier Hoxha was busily conferring with a Soviet mission which had dropped...
Said the unofficial Army & Navy Journal last week: "Since D-day in France, greater preoccupation has been shown by Russia in her Baltic and Balkan campaigns and by Great Britain in Italy, Greece and Albania than in the prime objective of our armies-the prompt defeat of Germany. In the liberated countries there have been Communistic and British interference and clashing which affect military operations. ... It was expected from the attitude of Marshal Stalin a year ago that he would cooperate. . . . [Now] Communistic activities would indicate that no effective brake has been applied...