Word: balkanize
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...been torn in the East Wall, a fourth was opening and Russians were pouring in. The Atlantic Wall was cracked in Normandy; the fissure opened by that wedge seemed to point straight to Paris. In northern Italy there was a bad breach that might spread to the weakened Balkan wing of the fort. Smaller cracks were opening within the fortress itself-the result of serious underground strains in France, in Yugoslavia, in Denmark...
Stoyan has been our Balkan expert for years. Although he is now a U.S. citizen, he was born in a district of old Austria-Hungary which became part of Yugoslavia after World War I. His father was Yugoslav Minister of the Interior until he was exiled for opposing the late King Alexander's dictatorship-and Stoyan today has one cousin who is a lieutenant colonel on Tito's general staff, another who is an official on the Partisan National Committee...
Stoyan himself joined our staff in 1940, right after he finished World Without End, a history the New York Times called "the best book about the Balkans in a long time." At first he worked as a writer for FORTUNE, but after Yugoslavia was overrun by the Nazis his one wish was to get back to his own country as a TIME correspondent. Until last fall, the closest he could get was Britain, where he worked on the staff of our London office and kept in close touch with the Balkan underground (he is one big reason why TIME...
Forbidden News. The A.P. was not the only collector of data on "Jumbo" Wilson's censorship. Other details leaked out. All Balkan stories having political implications had to be sent to Cairo, and Cairo's British censor was notoriously heavyhanded. On Cairo's official taboo list: any story about the National Liberation Front inside Greece; full reports on the Jewish-Arab question...
...fact remained that 1) British censors were deciding what Balkan news was fit for U.S. eyes to read; 2) Kent Cooper was fighting mad about...