Word: balkanize
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...plan for the formation of a new Balkan state-federated Yugoslavia-was announced officially from Moscow last week. A new chapter in Balkan and European history had begun...
...Royal Palace, fierce, shabby Partisans mounted guard. But the palace was an empty symbol. Young King Peter, exiled in London, might never live there again. Boys & girls of the Serbian Anti-Fascist Youth Congress chanted: "We don't want Peter, we want Tito." Said Tito: "Old Balkan differences will never again appear in the Balkans...
...plans for a federated Yugoslavia went through, it would emerge as the strongest state in the Balkans. A Balkan Federation to include Bulgaria and Rumania was a likely next step. Before the Big Three met again (see U.S. at WAR), Russia's political control of the Balkans would be consolidated...
...Salonika (Thessalonike), chief port of Macedonia. It was through Salonika that the Germans had supplied the Aegean islands, through Salonika that they moved back out of the Mediterranean. The "coveted city" that "crouches on the edge of the hill and touches the sea with her feet" is a major Balkan port, served as an Allied base in World War I. Destroyed by a famous two-day fire in 1917, it was rebuilt as a modern city. Last week it was a shambles again; more than 50 ships had been sunk in its wide harbor, its docks and warehouses smashed...
...coffee and cognac in sherry glasses. Sibelius asked for a large glass so his shaking hands wouldn't spill the cognac. The glass never came. He said he had one bottle of whiskey left, but was saving it. He had great difficulty lighting the stump of a Finnish Balkan tobacco cigar...