Word: balkanize
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...more. From the agitated monarchy front came the following news last week: > Too preoccupied with her frontier watch, Rumania failed to mark a historic anniversary. Ten years ago a Rumanian Army plane brought Carol of Hohenzollern back from exile. Since then Carol II has learned well the trade of Balkan king, burnished his capital with western splendor, and stuck to his grandfather's policy of trusting no one. Last week King Carol prudently passed up anniversary fetes, lay low in his handsome new palace...
...predictions of a possible Allied attack in the Mediterranean-Balkan zone were carried in the German press which gave bold headlines to "enormous tension in the Mediterranean" and "Balkans expect English attack...
...when the Balkan invasion takes place, it is a problem to decide who will do the invading. Italy will want to take over the rich plum of Hungary...
...began, last month ran down to Dubrovnik (better known to tourists as Ragusa), loaded, then lay for days while Belgrade hemmed & hawed. The Germans asked for a naval escort through Yugoslavia's neutral waters, hoping to establish a system whereby Nazi freighters could ply all around the neutral Balkan peninsula from Russia's Black Sea oil ports. But Yugoslavs had no wish to offend the Allies...
...Aleppo, the French and British commanders met with Turkey's high command in long sessions at which they were reported to have mapped out, in minutest detail, plans for tri-power action in the event of Balkan invasion by Germany or a Caucasian war with Russia. The Balkans buzzed with a report (discounted in London and Paris) that Turkey had promised the Allies free passage through the Dardanelles for war purposes and use of her harbors at Trebizond, Samsun and Sinope for a blockade of the Black...