Word: balkanize
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Fortnight ago the Axis learned a lesson in the possible dangers of Balkan partitioning. On a tour of the Albanian battlefields went Italy's and Albania's little 71-year-old King Vittorio Emanuele III. While he was motoring toward the Tirana airport with Albanian Premier Shefket Verlaci, a 19-year-old Greek named Vasil Laci Mihailoff fired four wild pistol shots at the King's car. On Mihailoff's person the police later found "futuristic poems" dealing with "love and hatred among farm animals." The Italians promptly dubbed Mihailoff a "poetic maniac" and further claimed...
Sooner or later Germany would try to consummate the Drang nach Osten begun by the Balkan campaign. Turkey stands in the way. If Germany could get around to the back door via Syria or Iraq, Turkey, encircled, would have to talk turkey...
...accept the best arrangements she could get, and for the past month negotiations have been proceeding for a barter agreement with Germany. Such Nazi agreements have a way of corrupting by persuasion and bribery a nation's business element: they preceded German occupation of most of the Balkan countries. But in Ankara Franz von Papen is dealing with a tougher character than any other statesman in the Balkans. Furthermore, he is dealing with one who has his country solidly behind...
They know him, first, as a great soldier who fought in the Balkan and First World Wars, then helped Kamâl Atatürk to drive the Greeks out of Turkey in 1922. At the village of Inönü, near Eskisehir, Ismet Pasha broke the Greeks' resistance. When Kamâl Atatürk ordered all Turks to take family names he asked his great friend to call himself Inönü. Ismet means Chastity...
...April was the month of the evacuation from Greece. The British admitted that 187,054 tons had been sunk in recent "intensive operations" in the Mediterranean-i.e., the Balkan campaign. Losses elsewhere, therefore, were only 301,070 tons-lower than total losses for any of the past twelve months except May 1940. And included in this figure were losses in the South Atlantic, off Africa, in the Indian Ocean, in the Far East. Apparently the convoy system was beginning to tell; perhaps the urgency for U.S. assistance in protecting shipping might be elsewhere than in the narrow northern lanes...