Word: balkanize
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...time the more knowledgeable Balkanese got sick & tired of wars. It was largely as an expression of this feeling that in 1934 four Balkan nations-Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece and Rumania-formed the Balkan Entente. The Entente's simple, appealing slogan: "The Balkans for the Balkanese." At first it attracted little attention. But as the Nazi shadow lengthened over Europe, as Hitler crushed the French-backed Little Entente (Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), as the Great Powers began to bid more strongly for alliances, secret understandings, greater trade, the Balkan Entente became a matter of gravest international concern...
Last week the Entente's Council-composed of the Foreign Ministers of the four participating nations-held their annual meeting at Belgrade. The circumstances could not have been more different from the inconspicuousness with which the four nations first signed the Non-Aggression Balkan Pact at Athens in 1934. With World War II on, big Powers were pulling strings harder than ever...
Germany not only depends upon her Balkan supplies for the war, but must increase them. The Soviet Union still looks upon Rumania's Bessarabia as a part of Russia, feels a kinship toward the Balkans' huge Slavic population. Italy regards the Balkans as her natural Lebensraum. The Allies would like nothing better than to get Germany or the U. S. S. R. involved in the Balkans so that they would have an open war front for their Armies in southeastern Europe...
Thus the four Balkan statesmen who sat down alone in the Council Chambers of Yugoslavia's Foreign Office and talked together without even a stenographer present to take down their thoughts (and possibly to let them leak out later) suddenly became Europe's biggest news...
OVER MY DEAD BODY-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nero Wolfe, who once fought in the Montenegrin Army, has a bit of a time with Balkan intrigue and a couple of quaintly accented lovelies named Lovchen and Tormic. One of them is probably his daughter; either might have murdered one of the fencers at a Manhattan salle d'armes. Archie Goodwin does all the work hvala Bogu (thank...