Word: balkanize
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Reports in Balkan capitals indicated that the Axis meant business, that three divisions of crack Nazi troops had arrived in Bari on Italy's heel and were being ferried across to Albania...
...Yugoslavia, where tough, pepper-eating Serbs breathed defiance and garlic even at the Axis. But surrounded by seven nations, five of which want a slice of her territory, and stranded without a single guarantee, Yugoslavia was already on the griddle. Even if the South Slavs would fight, a brief Balkan war on the way south to Egypt and the Suez would do no more than relieve boredom in the Nazi ranks...
...grandiose new palace wings with which Carol II busied his last months as Rumania's King, stands the Athenee Palace Hotel. It is a six-story, 200-room structure with a clean face of white stucco. Some call it the laboratory, some the lavatory, of Balkan politics. Its bar buzzes with political gossip and its marble-pillared lounge teems with blondes, top hats, beards, uniforms and monocles. Being the best hotel in Bucharest, it has always been the favorite hangout of the British...
Arrow Cross v. Double Cross. The strategy might be a purely Balkan one. Just as Napoleon turned back from the English Channel to Ulm and Austerlitz because he feared treachery at his rear, Adolf Hitler was perhaps just consolidating the ructious minor countries of the southeast. There was certainly plenty of consolidating to be done...
Russia's other Balkan object is age-old: an exit from the Black Sea. Russia's only other outlets to the world are through Vladivostok, the Baltic and the Arctic Ocean. The U. S. would be in a similar position if its only outlets to the world were through Alaska, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and the mouth of the Mississippi, which was held by a foreign power (the Turks). Since the 18th Century the Russians have hankered to possess the Bosporus and Dardanelles. When they tried to get them in 1854 the British, the French and later the Italians...