Word: balkanize
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...enemies-shadowboxing, feinting, faking as hard as they could-could not forget, as they stumbled closer every day to a Balkan struggle, this terrible danger: If the Balkans became a major theatre of fighting, the war might very easily be lost in the Balkans...
Power in Extremity. In Belgrade, key to the whole Balkan tangle for the moment, there was a strange gaiety last week. The most reliable index of Yugoslavia's enthusiasm is the amount of glass that gets broken. In Belgrade champagne bottles, having uttered their pops and spilled their bubbles, smashed against walls. Glasses, having been touched in toast, crashed into fireplaces. Siphon bottles, mirrors, windows were broken in greatest good humor...
...Axis. But there was one factor which might keep Yugoslavia happy, might even keep Yugoslavia out of the Axis, for a while anyhow. It certainly contributed to the false happiness of Belgrade last week. It was the persistent report that Britain, though conscious of the terrible risk of a Balkan battle, was landing in Greece in force...
...Field kitchens, supply trucks, oil-tank cars and uniformed war correspondents followed the mechanized fighting forces. In both Bulgaria and Rumania air bases were being multiplied, often with conscripted Jewish labor. Bulgaria's surgeons, doctors and druggists were mobilized for medical service. In command of the Nazis' Balkan operation was Field Marshal Siegmund List, veteran of the invasion of Poland...
...spoke out strongly. Through George A. Vlachos, Greece's leading editorialist, the Greek Government cried: "Our Army will fight on, if necessary, in Thrace as it has in Epirus, and Greece will show the world how to die as she has shown it how to fight!" But widespread Balkan reports had it that the Nazi diplomats were especially hard at work in Greece, persuading her that it was unnecessary to die. They wanted Greece, it was said, to make an "honorable" peace with Italy and allow Germany to consolidate a Salonika Front before the British could...