Word: balkanize
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...pretty little resort town of Salzburg last week went delegations from three Balkan nations-but they didn't go there for fun. It was not yet known whether Germany or Russia (or both) was to be the master of their fate. In case it was Germany they had gone to get their German orders...
Through diplomatic channels, Germany advised King Carol to quit the Balkan Entente. This bloc, consisting of Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia, to which King Carol adhered even after his tumble into the Nazi camp, has in general been favorable to British and Russian interests. He had a good reason: the Entente served as a check on Bulgaria, which wants the Rumanian province of Dobruja. Hungary, which covets Rumanian Transylvania, last week opened a screaming press attack on Rumania because of Carol's "shifty" policy toward the Axis, to which Hungary clings. Finally, Russia handed King Carol a note stressing...
Keeping tabs on the G. A. N. A. are a civic committee and a self-appointed squad of businessmen, while the station in turn has spotters watching "certain Hammond businessmen." With everybody claiming to be helping the F. B. I., Hammond has taken on a fine Balkan atmosphere...
...gone Nazi in a belated effort to get German protection (TIME, July 1). Both Berlin and Rome professed disinterest in what Russia was doing, blamed any agitation about it on a British plot to open an eastern front. Germany insisted that she would not be drawn into any Balkan adventure now and Italy told Hungary and Bulgaria not to press their claims against Rumania. But Berlin hinted darkly that present conditions were only temporary. The last thing Germany could tolerate would be permanent Russian control of the mouth of the Danube...
...Confounded" are also three: one the devoted, discarded mistress of a Balkan prince, one a huge, insensate prize fighter from Manhattan, one a tense, French Catholic Jew who betrayed his race. Each goes through shattering experiences, each suffers the wrath of the exacting...