Word: balkanize
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...Balkan lather of ethno-pathology two facts bristled last week: the turmoil in Bulgaria and Rumania approached open insurrection; German activity in the Danube Valley was concerned with more than the recruiting of new divisions for the Russian front...
...attempt to stem the rising tide of revolt, Adolf Hitler ordered a Balkan conference. Hitler, Mussolini, Admiral Horthy of Hungary, King Boris of Bulgaria and Premier General Ion Antonescu of Rumania were to meet in Vienna to try to straighten out the New Order in Southern Europe...
Hitler wanted: 1) five additional Rumanian divisions to join the 16 already active on the Russian front; 2) more Hungarian troops for Russia; 3) a Bulgarian declaration of war against the Soviet Union; 4) a speedy end to the Yugoslav guerrillas; 5) cessation of inner Balkan disputes and concentration on fighting Bolshevism; 6) continued shipments of Balkan agricultural products to Germany...
...Balkan Way. Rommel rolling up from Suez is not the chief menace to Sir Henry's bridge. Neither, as it may well turn out, is the German drive through the Caucasus. Wilson and Wavell do not forget that the Germans have a third approach, one that may be the most dangerous of all, if Egypt falls and the Nazis control the inner Mediterranean. The man waiting on that approach is the Luftwaffe's General Alexander Löhr, commander of all German forces in the Balkans, Crete and the Aegean Islands. A solely airborne thrust from Crete...
...blues singers of Arkansas, Georgia, etc. would be forced to constitute the Balkan Union of N.A. This state should not be allowed to control the Mississippi delta, nor have access to the Atlantic seaboard. For their unimportant trade, Pensacola, to be renamed Salonika, will do as their only port...