Word: balkanize
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With the unexpected presence in London last week of a cultured Balkan gentleman, it began to look as though Neville Chamberlain had discarded a winning hand before the showdown and might pick it up again...
...primer of the Balkans would begin by describing them as a backward group of peewee States (Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece) whose combined outline is wedge-shaped like South America's. Like the South American States, the Balkans have been characterized by their propensity for rapid and explosive political change, by their archaic society, which has kept the land largely primitively agricultural and industrially undeveloped. The 310,000 square miles of Balkan territory are naturally rich. Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured...
...phony Nazi export marks. He would naturally rather sell his corn, fruit, iron and bauxite to Britain than to Germany. What probably took him to London, and what had taken Boris, Carol and George, was to see if they could induce Britain to offer more good sterling for more Balkan products. The British Government were glad...
...rule Serbia after the Obrenovitches- King, Queen and five other dignitaries of the court-had been conveniently wiped out in one night. While Crown Prince Alexander was being prepared for the kingship, Prince Paul went to Oxford. His education there was interrupted thrice by wars-by the First (Balkans v. Turkey) and Second (Serbia, Greece, Rumania, Turkey v. Bulgaria) Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, again by the World War, which began by the Austrians invading Serbia in 1914. Each time Prince Paul went home to take an officer's commission, each time he returned to study philosophy...
...Baltic, next job will be to bring Ludwig's Rhine-Main-Danube canal up to date. Now it is used chiefly by canoeists, but by 1945 it is expected to be able to accommodate 1,200-ton lighters. Moving cheaply from Greater Germany down into the Danube and Balkan countries, these are expected to extend German influence and manufactured goods markets, return laden with ore, cereals and oil to fill the German need for raw materials...