Word: balkanize
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What tack would the U.S. take in the months to come? If the occupation of French North Africa had posed a thorny politico-moral issue, still unsolved, it was nothing compared to the complications which would arise with, say, a Balkan invasion-on which Russia would most assuredly have to be consulted. Until now, Russia has not shown her hand-a fact compounded of Soviet secrecy and a negative Anglo-American policy. Whether or not such a Balkan adventure was ever contemplated, there was urgent reason right now for an Anglo-American political understanding with Russia, and the means...
...score of years, while "kings" of jazz and swing have succeeded each other with Balkan rapidity, a "Duke" has exhibited most of the real majesty from beside the throne. So last week the U.S. music world helped the Duke celebrate his 20th year as a band leader. The American Federation of Musicians officially blessed a National Ellington Week in honor of famed Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, whose flamboyant black band has played superb jazz longer than any other orchestra in the history of U.S. popular music...
Bela Bartok, internationally known Hungarian composer and authority on Balkan folk songs and modern music, will join the University teaching staff during the spring term, Professor Arthur T. Merritt, chairman of the department of Music, revealed recently...
...Many Junkers? The Luftwaffe was reported to have at least five thousand 528 and other transport planes at the war's start. But the Balkan campaign, Crete and the trans-Mediterranean supply of Rommel must have absorbed a big proportion of the available transports. The Germans in Tunisia now require many more for their prodigious air-supply operation via Sicily...
Hull: "Hungary is a small Balkan kingdom on the Danube...