Word: balkanize
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...Namely: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, recently put over all France, 66; Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Prussian who helped conquer Poland, Paris, the North Caucasus, 61; Field Marshal Siegmund List, who led the Balkan campaign, 62; Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, who commands the northern front in Russia...
...North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants now out of reach of Britain-based planes. The arc of the Alps could be bypassed by land troops without danger of an Italian flank attack along the historic Balkan route to Germany's back door. Along part of that route Yugoslav partisans last week had a new fighting front...
Some were reminded of an old Balkan proverb: "In time of great danger, walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge." Ahead of the U.S. were many bridges, and many devils...
Into the triangle of Sardinia, Sicily and Tunisia he poured air strength. Reports last week were that he already had 1,000 planes in the area. By stripping European, Russian, Balkan, Italian air forces to the minimum, he could put an estimated 3,000 planes into the area, possibly prevent the junction of Allied North African forces, win himself more time to bolster his defenses of southern Europe...
...peasants and workers or by Communists. Said a traveler to Istanbul from Sofia: "The Bulgarian people today see the sole hope for their country's future salvation in the creation of closer ties with Russia." The London Daily Herald's correspondent cabled from Istanbul: "If a Balkan front were to be opened up by the United Nations today . . . there would be revolution in Bulgaria tomorrow...