Word: balkanize
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...bewilderment had given birth to deep-seated public dissatisfaction with the way its Government was running the "strangest of wars." While the Allied Supreme War Council talked tough, while France's new Premier Paul Reynaud promised action of some sort, Great Britain contented herself with recalling all her Balkan envoys for a talkfest...
Impressive indeed was the way in which devious Benito Mussolini meanwhile made himself the patron saint of a Balkan peace bloc. Hungary, which is geographically in Germany's sphere, swung back politically into Italy's (where she was before Anschluss). Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky was received by Count Ciano in Venice and last week Premier Count Paul Teleki was made to feel very happy in Rome-even though Benito Mussolini told him Hungary must not dream of getting Transylvania from Rumania until war's end. An Italian economic mission showed up in every Southeastern European country...
...been prepared for a tacit European federation-embracing all but the Allies, the Low Countries, and Turkey. Undemocratic, a brotherhood of fear, it represented the antithesis of what the democracies hope will emerge from the war, and had in it the seeds of defeat for the Allies. The Balkan nations had little choice in the matter. The great cereal bowl of the Danube sends Germany in peacetime some 50% of its produce, and though blockade and winter have so far hampered movement, the German demand has greatly increased since war began. Almost exclusively agricultural, the Balkans depend in turn...
...Balkan status quo to be preserved unless the Allies open a campaign in which case Germany and Russia would try to stop the Allies by invading Rumania, eventually partitioning that country with Hungary and Bulgaria. Italy to be permitted to move into Yugoslavia to guarantee a 100% Italian Adriatic...
Hitler obviously would like to cover up the Balkan ingress, and a possible way for him to do so is by persuading Italy to join Germany and Russia in forming a protective horseshoe around the Balkans, guaranteeing them against war-and perhaps divvying them up at leisure. Following the meeting at Brennero, rumors flew through Berlin that Russia's Molotov would soon go there for a meeting with Italy's Ciano. Hungary's Premier Count Paul Teleki rushed to Rome to make sure that Hungary's claims on Rumania were considered in any plan to change...