Word: balkanize
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...Balkan foundations curmpled; its eastern ramparts shook before the battering of Russian might that could not be denied...
Disaster Compounded. As the week began, there had been inspired rumors that Bulgaria was about to desert the Axis. But before the Bulgars could act, the Rumanians beat them to it. King Mihai himself jumped on the Allied bandwagon and, for once, a Balkan king's act represented the will of the people (see FOREIGN NEWS). For the Wehrmacht, defections in the Balkans meant disaster at astronomically compounded interest: 22 German divisions on the Rumanian front were doomed to defeat, most of them to death or capture; 25 Rumanian divisions which had been helping the Nazis turned against them...
Officially We Know Nothing. Another Balkan monarch, Bulgaria's seven-year-old King Simeon II, may also owe his tottery throne to the Soviet Union. Said the same official: "Moscow should have informed us of an understanding with Bulgaria. It did not. So, officially, we do not know anything about it. But several indications have come to us, mainly from Ankara, pointing to the probability of the existence of a Soviet-Bulgarian understanding...
...York hotel room last week, merry-eyed M. (for Marcel) W. (for William) Fodor, 53, one of the oldest and ablest of U.S. foreign correspondents, smiled happily and rubbed his hands. After a six-year absence he was going back to his Balkan beat, on which, he is perhaps the world's top expert, and he expected great things...
...make peace with the Allies. There was one report that Bulgaria and Turkey were discussing how to avoid hostilities, another to the effect that Turkey was planning to invade Bulgaria. Well might the Bulgarians worry. If the Turks were entering the war to fight, Bulgaria might become a Balkan battleground as Turkish armies attempted to smash their way up in the rear of groggy Rumania...