Word: balkanize
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Robert Donat plays the title role--that of a Balkan Man of Mystery whom everyone (except the audience) suspects of Nazi sympathies--and makes the most of his shadow-lurking appearances. His support, which includes spies, Gestape agents, saboteurs and the like--all a congenial crew--is adequate and, at times, pretty darn good...
...fronts. For nearly four years Britain (and, after Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S.) did not want Turkey in the war. The Western Allies had a good reason: they lacked the troops, planes, ships to protect Turkey against the Germans, or to make use of her strategic position in a Balkan campaign. In effect, during this welcome neutrality Turkey at war would probably have put a severer drain upon Britain and the U.S. than upon Germany. As late as last February, Churchill told the House of Commons: "It is not part of our policy to get Turkey into trouble...
Lost Chance. Since the Allies never really held the invaded islands, the loss was serious only because the abortive sorties had caused the Germans to look to their Balkan outworks. One possible effect was hardly mentioned: the effect on neutral Turkey. The Aegean fiasco might well slow the Turks' recent drift toward active collaboration with the Allies...
Trouble loomed from the outset. Soon after Italy capitulated, a handful of British airborne troops took a handful of Dodecanese and Aegean islands off Turkey's west coast. Their aim: air bases, harbors from which to harass from the rear the Nazis' outer chain of Balkan defenses-the islands of Rhodes, Scarpanto and Crete...
Across General Wilson's desk flow all reports from U.S. and British liaison officers attached to Balkan guerrilla bands. Last week Cairo radio beamed at the hills and valleys of Yugoslavia General Wilson's considered judgment...