Word: balkanize
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Significance. Europe's revolt against Adolf Hitler was not one movement, but many. In Yugoslavia it was hot, open civil war, abetted by traditional Balkan Pan-Slavic sympathies. Soviet Russia even spared "a certain number" of bombers to aid the insurgents. In Czecho-Slovakia it was the discovered sabotage of highly organized underground rebels as the high rank of many of the condemned suggested. Widespread in Europe were examples of that single zealotry of which Paul Collette was the prime symbol...
...scarfaced Dr. Karl Clodius has long been Adolf Hitler's successful advance man in the Balkans. His luscious blonde "assistant," Edith von Koehler, has long impressed Balkan social circles, which never tire of blondes. But last week Edith von Koehler was not in Ankara and Turkish Government circles were not impressed by Dr. Clodius...
...Donna Rachele, his own wife, a strong woman who opposed Bruno's flying; Vittorio, not such a good flyer, only a lieutenant while Bruno, nearly two years his junior, was a captain; Edda Ciano, the girl, who had very nearly been killed by British flyers during the Balkan fight. Bruno's pretty wife Gina was also there. The other Mussolinis-Anna, Maria and Romano, mere schoolchildren-were too young for this vigil...
Leeb is the most consciously aristocratic, the most austere. Because he wrote a Chronicle of the Leeb Family, he has been called the Family-Tree General. His friend Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm List, who commanded the Balkan campaign, once said: "If Leeb ever tried to smile, it would crack his face." His coldness has deprived him of friends, but he is respected as an upright professional soldier. He lost a son in Poland...
...communiques early in the week; with the prisoners from the Ukraine, his total moved over the million mark. In the last war, the Russians had one and one half "blood casualties" (killed and wounded) for every prisoner loss in the early, mobile phases.* In last spring's Balkan campaign, the Greeks, where they fought hard (in the Struma Valley, for instance), had about three and one half blood casualties to every prisoner loss. Supposing the hard-fighting Russians to have suffered at least two blood casualties to each prisoner loss, total casualties early this week would...