Word: balkanize
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...Balkan and Baltic states will be given a free choice in the selection of their postwar governments...
...would have the No. i position. Industrial Austria and Czecho-Slovakia might neatly complement agrarian Hungary, perhaps offer a haven for Rumania and for Croatia & Slovenia if prewar Yugoslavia should not revive. The rest of Southeastern Europe-Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Albania-might be encouraged to form a parallel Balkan Federation...
...Hungarian radio announced: "It would be wrong to expect an atmosphere of distrust in Moscow." The Finnish radio said: "The smaller countries hope that agreement will be reached at the Moscow conference." BBC, sifting Balkan news and comment, reported that Rumania showed a panicky realization that she was on the wrong side, while Bulgaria was pinning her hopes on her refusal to declare war on Russia...
Optimism. Moscow's confidence stemmed from more than armed victory. Cordell Hull and Anthony Eden arrived for the eagerly awaited conference with Viacheslav Molotov. With Hull, in four planes, came the new U.S. Ambassador, W. Averell Harriman, the State Department's experts on Russian, Baltic, Balkan affairs and the Secretary's friend and adviser James C. Dunn. Also among the arrivals were Major General John R. Deane, U.S.A., secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs, and Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, Winston Churchill's personal Chief of Staff. In Africa was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury...
...Power. De Luce found the Partisan movement assuming the proportions of military big business. "Until now [they] have relied for success on their own guerrilla skill. . . . [But now] there are more new soldiers than rifles-even counting the long-barreled old squirrel shooters of Balkan War vintage-and there is a job to finish that only planes and armored vehicles...