Word: balkanize
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Until the spring of 1934, Boris was just another playful Balkan monarch. He liked most of all the boyish pastime of playing with railroad trains - real ones. His royal hobby became so famous that Yugoslav engineers named him Locomotive Führer Honoris Causa. Then in 1934 the Bulgarian Army abolished Parliament and established Boris as the somewhat bewildered figurehead of a military dictatorship. Boris buckled down to serious work and within a year made it just plain dictatorship, with the Army very much in the background. He had married Princess Giovanna, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele...
...Problems in the Balkans" was the subject of Professor William L. Langer '15, who emphasized the enigmatic role of Soviet Russia in dictating the foreign, policy of the Balkan nations, Turkey, he noted, holds the key to the situation, but its actions must depend on those of the U.S.S.R...
...frontiers against Germany and a weakening of German armed strength to the point where Russia would be a match for it. Whatever he decides is more likely to promote these ends is the course he will inevitably take. Already his stalling tactics have held Germany up while rains made Balkan roads more difficult of passage. Greek resistance to Italy has also played into Stalin's hands. So, last week, did an earthquake in Rumania which, besides killing a lot of Rumanians, buckled railroad tracks, toppled bridges, tumbled buildings across city streets and fired refineries in the Ploesti oil district...
...Cover) Since World War II began 14 months ago the Balkan Peninsula has run a temperature. Periodic scares have sent it to fever pitch, then dropped it as, one way or another, neighboring powers got their way without bloodshed. Rumania is partitioned and overrun by the German Army. Bulgaria takes orders from the Axis. Even Yugoslavia, which has a relatively large, well-trained Army, has taken the path of appeasement. This week war came at last to the Balkans, to the weakest country, but to the one country determined enough to stand up to Axis threats - to Greece...
...immediate gain for 70,000,000 Nazi gullets, fine for a short war. But Europe has never been able to feed herself, let alone secure a balanced diet, without importing great quantities of foodstuffs, fodder, fertilizers. France made up most of her deficit with imports from Morocco. The Balkan States have long been selling their small exportable food surplus to Germany. If there is surplus food in Russia with all her great grain fields, it is a State secret. As a whole the territory that Hitler took merely added to his domains more territory that cannot feed itself...