Word: balkanize
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...beyond these areas are lands which may well be subject to discussion: Poland, the Balkan countries of Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia; the remainder of Poland; Hungary; Czecho-Slovakia. It is there that Messrs. Eden and Hull may find both their greatest dangers and their greatest opportunities for immediate, concrete discussion with Molotov...
Cavendish Welles Cannon is the State Department's middle-aged and ailing Balkan expert. Hardworking, tired-eyed Mr. Cannon knows Hungary, Bulgaria and Greece intimately, has only a secondhand knowledge of the pro-Russian Czechs and the Yugoslavs...
...lost point on Europe's fringe, they launched an air and seaborne assault against tiny Cos and its excellent airfield. The Allies admitted the loss of several strongpoints on the island to the German counterattack. Field Marshal von Weichs was evidently determined to hold the outer ring of Balkan defenses and exact a good price for any Allied landings on the mainland. Other ring positions recently secured by the Germans: strategic Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic, Cephalonia farther south in the Ionian Sea, and Albania. On the Dalmatian coast, above Albania, "General Tito's" Partisans lost...
Cairo, the Allies' center of Balkan information, flatly disbelieved the German accounts. Military informants there doubted that the Germans had, or could find, enough troops to replace the Italians, or that the Germans could long control both the Italians and millions of restive Greeks, Albanians, Yugoslavs, Cretans, Bulgarians...
...Russia had caustic words to say against General Draja Mihailovich; the Polish Government in Exile (with which Russia broke relations five months ago); the Allied Military Government; neutral Turkey (by insuring Germany's Balkan flank it is prolonging...