Word: balkanize
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...still too early this week to know what the long-range results of the shortlived Balkan campaign would be, but certain immediate credits and debits could be entered on the balance sheet of war. They were weighted in the black for Germany, in the red for Great Britain...
...British went to work on Italy. Far ahead of schedule they brought about the weak ally's ruin in North Africa-so far ahead and so brilliantly that the strongest foe was obliged to pay attention and to plan Balkan and African campaigns. Germany's appearance on the scene revised the fundamental British strategy...
...railway car, resting on a siding under the shadow of a Balkan mountain on whose crest anti-aircraft units kept constant vigil, was set as usual for Adolf Hitler's morning conference with his advisers. Assembled in the car were all the biggest of the bigs: Göoring, Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Brauchitsch, Raeder, Himmler, Hess (see cut). They were gathered together to congratulate Adolf Hitler on his 52nd birthday...
...upon them because: 1) the Germans blame the Serbs for Yugoslav resistance; 2) Germany needs Serbia's copper and foodstuffs. They would probably not get much food from Serbia this year, thanks to war damage and the dislocation of agriculture which the German push has caused in all Balkan countries...
...true Balkan fashion, one excitement was leading to another. As Yugo slavia fought its last battles, word came of border clashes between Rumania and Hungary over the portions of Transylvania handed to Hungary last year by the Axis, and of a threatened coup d'état in Rumania by the irascible Iron Guard. It ∙ looked as though Hitler was due to discover that even a smashing victory would not keep the Balkens quiet...