Word: balkanize
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Well aware are the Turks that their country offers Hitler the best road to Suez, the shortest land route to Russia's Transcaucasian oil fields (and to Iran, Afghanistan, India, beyond). Since the Balkan campaign, Nazi pressure on Turkey has increased notch by notch, with troop concentrations in Bulgaria, fortification of islands in the Aegean off the Turkish coast, increasing activity of Nazi agents behind Turkey's back (particularly in Iran). Economic pressure, too, has steadily risen since the German-Turkish trade pact was signed in June...
Died. Prince George Valentine Bibesco, 61, pioneer flier; in Bucharest. He was the 20th man to receive an international pilot's license, commanded the Rumanian Air Force in the Balkan war of 1913, bombed his own country's oil fields for the Rumanian general staff as an ally of Britain in World War I. For the past eleven years he had been president of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale...
...Paris press, through espionage facilitated by France's leaders. M. Chéradame says the French leaders would not listen to him when he urged a knockout blow at Italy when World War II began. With Italy out, he thinks, the Allies could have established a Balkan front and kept Germany fighting on two fronts. Instead Weygand's Army sat in Syria, threatening not Germany but Russia. Thus the Fifth Column destroyed France and the Franco-British Alliance, lost the Balkans to Germany, which thereby extended its pincers around Russia for the next move...
...British edition of the Gallup poll showed last week that 86% of the British approved of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. In March 88% had approved, and the months between had seen damaging blows to his prestige-the Balkan campaign, the loss of Crete. As far as British popular sentiment went, the vote indicated that the Prime Minister's personal prestige would probably survive another defeat-provided it was not due to gross incompetence...
...familiar hell-roaring vein, the Premier slid over defeats, bellowed the might of the Axis. "It is absolutely mathematical that in April, even if nothing had happened to change the Balkan situation, the Italian Army would have overcome and annihilated the Greek Army." Almost all of Greece would be occupied by Italian troops. Italian Albania would be extended. Italy's dead in Africa ("I cannot tell you today when or how") would be avenged...