Word: balkanize
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Mushanoff is a classic middle-of-the-roader. He admires German culture and efficiency, but hates Naziism. He is emotionally pro-Russian, but detests Communism. He advocates an entente with other Balkan peoples, but thinks Bulgaria should keep some of her neighbors' territories. From all except the most radical viewpoints, he is respectable...
...Central Europe. The small states in this cordon, mutually not too friendly, would be tied to Moscow by agreements like the Soviet-Czech pact. Any overall federation in this area would form a large unit which might become a menace to Russia; that is why Moscow has opposed any Balkan, Danubian or Scandinavian federations...
...fighting in the mountains was aimed at railroad lines. These attacks were evidently keyed in with air raids by Allied Mitchell bombers from Italy. The U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, newly based in Italy, struck heavy blows at Pola, big supply center for Nazi forces in Yugoslavia (and at Sofia, Balkan communications hub.) Tito and Allied commanders were in communication; it was no longer a secret that some supply vessels and many liaison parties shuttled between Italy and Partisan-held points on the coast...
...great port of Naples and the great airfields of Foggia. The General's implication: these, more than any other prize, put Anglo-American forces in position for a flank attack on southern France and/or the Balkan Adriatic coast. Presumably from Foggia's web of runways last week, Allied planes thrust an arm over Marshal Tito's troops, hammered the Nazi rail junction at Sofia and dromes near Athens...
...Soviet Government's recognition of the Church has done more than restore Moscow as the capital of a religiously united Russia. It united Europe's Danubian and Balkan Slavs in a Slavic religious continent whose heartland is Rus sia, whose metropolis is Moscow...