Word: balkanize
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...years. In a photograph published recently in a German magazine, he looked fit and happier than the wounded soldiers with whom he was shaking hands (see cut). Of more significance was Salter's report on Hitler's plans and promises. According to this account, he gave the Balkan leaders these assurances...
...Balkan woods held their first anemones. Peasants spanned their plows, knowing that guns sow no seeds but that the men of war must eat. In Czechoslovakia eleven underground workers were executed. In Yugoslavia there were reports of 30,000 war-orphaned children roaming, singly and in packs, over the countryside, starving, dying, turning into fierce hooligans...
...complicated boundary questions in the Danubian and Balkan areas cannot be discussed in this article. It may be added that in urging that the principle of "The boundaries of 1933 as far as possible" be recognized at or prior to the armistice period, one does not necessarily preclude the possibility of later boundary modifications which conditions may make it desirable for the United Nations or for a new international body to agree upon...
Once a week the main branch chiefs meet in Washington to prepare the general directive, or official "line"; they sit down with representatives of the War, Navy and State Departments. This general directive is mainly responsible for the writers' headaches and heartbreaks. (A Balkan expert, for example, will suddenly find his previously acceptable copy being roughly handled: the "line" has changed...
...high places. Poland would be a northern anchor, Italy the southern anchor of such a federation. But, should restoration of the Habsburgs meet with too great resistance from socialist Freemason Czechs and pro-Russian Yugoslavs, an Eastern European Catholic Federation might be contrived, binding Catholic groups together in a Balkan cordon sanitaire from Poland to the Mediterranean...