Word: balkanize
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...Balkan Axis." Declared the German Economics Minister: "Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey, which are political friends, form a kind of Balkan axis which reaches from the German border to the Black Sea. This fact made it possible to negotiate great economic reconstruction plans for all three countries, including extensive road construction and telephone and cable installation...
Crisis-Proof? From Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the Chicago Daily News's famed Balkan newspundit, M. W. Fodor, who operated in Vienna before the Anschluss, last week flashed: "German planned economics is in essence a form of socialist production and distribution. Up until the recent downfall of Czechoslovakia, the conventional capitalist system of production and distribution was never really seriously challenged outside of Russia. Completion of a successful tour of the Balkans by Dr. Walther Funk . . . signals not only the fact that Germany has finally won the World War, but also that she has delivered the most serious blow the capitalist...
Ankara statesmen, however, did not appear to have slipped into the noose of Nazidom. Cynical neutrals figured that Turkey and the Balkan States are now delightedly inviting bids from the democracies and the totalitarian states, with not. even the azure skies of the Near East as the limit in a game of dishing out money which the richer democracies should be able...
When his uncle died, Stoyan went to Montana as water boy to a railroad construction gang. He and a friend made the 1,500-mile trip in dilapidated boxcars outfitted as bunkhouses, which whipped over the tracks like a snake, threatening momentarily to fall to pieces. But the Balkan occupants had no qualms at all. If the Chewtobaccos, the big bosses, said they were safe, they must be safe. Their faith in democracy was often demonstrated just as literally. Because a giant worker heard that workers were equal with the rich, he carried a mattress, white sheets, wore silk pajamas...
...last pages, describing his job as secretary to the Bulgarian Consul in Chicago, the start of his literary career, his return to his native country as Balkan correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, are less interesting, but refreshingly unsoulful...